admikar
Contributor
My cert allows me to demonstrate and teach you OW skills, but does not allow me to issue you a cert. So, I can show you all the skills required for OW and train you to pass the exam. Please explain to me how you would be safer with an instructor than with me?Sir,
I have read through to page two, and very surprised to see just how many divers are suggesting you risk your life in attempting something for which you have no training or experience.
You're only a month away, from learning what you need to know. Things such as deep/peak performance buoyancy/navigation/deploying a surface marker/redundant gear/drysuit, to name but a few AOW specialties. I strongly suggest you wait.
Regardless of how qualified/experienced??? your dive partner is, you will be solely dependant on him/her, and what are you going to do if he/she should have a problem, any problem???
Anything/everything that's worth doing, is worth doing right.
There is an old saying, that I'm not particularly fond of, but nonetheless, you don't know what you don't know.
For all you naysayers out there who think I'm foolish, I would be glad to take you on a tour of any of my four funeral homes, to show you what happens to people who thought they could excel past their skill level.
Dive Safely,
Rose
If your assumption is correct, who trained first instructor to train you to go beyond your current skill level?