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OK - I am all about hypotheticals today...
Suppose I would, sometime in the not-too-distant future, decide I wanted a DM card to include in the deck of cards on hand. No intention of doing instructing (or participating in instructin', no intention really, of doing much in the way of actual dive masterin'..... More of a self-satisfaction accomplishment).
But, if at some point moved off somewhere divey in retirement and decided I wanted to lead dives on a part-time basis just to stay busy a couple days a week, maybe free access to fill tanks with nitrox or tinker on tanks or regs when the shop needs it or some such other diversionary efforts....
If you wanted to hook up with an operator as their fill-in-when-our-super-hero-high-speed-low-drag-tacticaool-DM-gal/guy-is-sick-or-hung-over for leading dives (boat DM or local knowledge dive guide), I imagine they would prefer someone with certification out of the agency they subscribe to, but do they care if your DM comes from somebody else - say you had a RAID or NAUI DM card and they were and SSI shop? Keep in mind, not for teaching students.... Just pointing out cool coral formations or sea horses or frog fish or speckled pecker eels, and making sure everybody on the dive gets back topside safely.
Suppose I would, sometime in the not-too-distant future, decide I wanted a DM card to include in the deck of cards on hand. No intention of doing instructing (or participating in instructin', no intention really, of doing much in the way of actual dive masterin'..... More of a self-satisfaction accomplishment).
But, if at some point moved off somewhere divey in retirement and decided I wanted to lead dives on a part-time basis just to stay busy a couple days a week, maybe free access to fill tanks with nitrox or tinker on tanks or regs when the shop needs it or some such other diversionary efforts....
If you wanted to hook up with an operator as their fill-in-when-our-super-hero-high-speed-low-drag-tacticaool-DM-gal/guy-is-sick-or-hung-over for leading dives (boat DM or local knowledge dive guide), I imagine they would prefer someone with certification out of the agency they subscribe to, but do they care if your DM comes from somebody else - say you had a RAID or NAUI DM card and they were and SSI shop? Keep in mind, not for teaching students.... Just pointing out cool coral formations or sea horses or frog fish or speckled pecker eels, and making sure everybody on the dive gets back topside safely.