Cruise tomorrow... Forgot my C-card at home!

[Matt S.]

I never need my C-card when I dive at home so I managed to forget it!

I have my PADI number... hopefully Princess Cruises or their dive op will be able to look me up, or be satisfied with the number. $#&*! Someone reassure me, please.

 

[Capt Scotty]

Relax....most shops can look up a PADI cert online

 

[justleesa]

What he says

 

[DeputyDan]

Scan your c card
then e-mail it to yourself as an attachment to a global e-mail address like yahoo
Then you hve access if you have internet.
Good ideal for the passport and other documents also.

 

[Cacia]

Scan your c card
then e-mail it to yourself as an attachment to a global e-mail address like yahoo
Then you hve access if you have internet.
Good ideal for the passport and other documents also.

Brilliant person.

I did that with some other cards.....for replacement purposes my entire wallet contents and passport, I scanned.

 

[Don Wray]

Some of the ops they use can, some can't....In Cozumel, the dive op Princess used was Aquaworld, they met us at the pier, took our info right there, and straight on the boat....the number may suffice as you will receive all your waivers upon entering your stateroom and you fill them out there. I know Don Foster's, who they use in Cayman, can look it up on the computer. You can ask them at the tour desk on Deck 6.

 

[Matt S.]

Thanks everyone!

If I get to fill out all the forms myself it seems pretty easy. I'll check with the tour desk if there is any doubt, Don. (I'm leaving from Los Angeles, heading town towards Cabo.)

 

[Peter Guy]

Can you call your LDS and have them get a screen shot of the PADI cert (if they can't just print it out) and email/fax it to you?

BTW, I did this on our trip to Coz last year. I had our house sitter scan/email ALL our cards to us -- I then took pictures of the cards so I could just show the dive op my cards from my camera!

 

[livewire]

Catherine, DeputyDan and all:

While the idea of scanning and emailing your mission critical stuff to a web-based email address is a great way to make important documents accessible, be mindful that the internet isn't such a safe place. C-cards are one thing, but passports and credit cards may be another.

With the tools available on the internet today, it's getting easier to hack these web based accounts and your sensitive data would then be compromised. The solution is easy, just make sure you use long passwords (14 characters is much harder to crack than 6) with non alpha characters (12345$#*%^ etc) and try to avoid accessing that account from public computers. Public computers are easily compromised with invisible key loggers that capture keystrokes and web sites visited and send the logged data off to the bad guy who wants to steal your identity, your money, whatever.

 

[herman]

For what it's worth any PADI Pro.. DM/Instructor..can get to anyone's PADI C card if they have access to the internet (and remember their password ) Plenty of us running around.