First PADI Recreational Backmount Doubles Certification Issued

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Where is that documented? As while the attached instructor guide for that course is a bit dated, it does not state that being a certified cave diver is a requirement. It may have changed of course.
When you go to apply for the certification to teach the class, the requirement is clearly stated.
 
When you go to apply for the certification to teach the class, the requirement is clearly stated.
The actual statement on the Specialty Instructor Application is:
*Documentation Required
A. Cavern Diver course – attach to this application documentation of certification as a full Cave Diver by a recognized Cave certification agency

There are other prerequisites for other courses, too, for example Nitrox, Ice, Self-Reliant, and Sidemount all require you to show you have at least been certified as a diver at those levels, plus additional requirements. Equipment Instructor requires you to show documentation of attendance at a manufacturer's repair clinic or written repair authorization from a manufacturer.
 
Since when did a certification ever prove competence?

Thank you for showing us your card. Now do a checkout dive to demonstrate your skills and prove your competence.


BTW why do you have to be instructed to do or learn anything different? Put up an SMB - we have a speciality course for that. Use a DPV - we have a course for that. Dive sidemount... OK, maybe some coaching helps to configure your kit!
 
and I bet they were the type that just had the cross bar between the two tanks with a reg post in the middle.

What? There is a problem with center-post doubles? I use mine all the time. :)



 
Time will tell if development of this course is going to safeguard the industry from all those rogue recreational divers out there operating in the strata between single tank recreational and regular technical diving.

If the PADI empire starts cranking out generations of “more than recreational but less than technical” divers, they’ll need an elite moniker, something like….

‘Tweeners.
 
Where is that documented? As while the attached instructor guide for that course is a bit dated, it does not state that being a certified cave diver is a requirement. It may have changed of course.
It has been that way for a few years now. PADI Instructors must be certified at the Full Cave level in order to teach cavern.
 
BTW why do you have to be instructed to do or learn anything different? Put up an SMB - we have a speciality course for that. Use a DPV - we have a course for that. Dive sidemount... OK, maybe some coaching helps to configure your kit!
That logic would apply to all learning. Why take a course when you could learn it on your own? We could eliminate all schools--elementary, high school, and universities--and just tell people to learn what they want to learn on their own.
 
BTW why do you have to be instructed to do or learn anything different?
Some people prefer the course to the alternative of reinventing all the mistakes, some of which are dangerous.
 

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