Forgot license... What to do?

[Diver0001]

It depends on your organization.
With NAUI, SSI, TDI/SDI & IFDI, you can prove your diving level through a web page.
You can find all useful direct links to those pages on ifdi.info divers page: https://www.ifdi.info/Divers.php.
With PADI, you may download their application.

With other diving organization, it does not seem so simple...
Is there some of you who knows how to proceed in those other diving organisation?

Best regards.

As an aside to this thread, before I travel I take pictures of all the documents I'm going to have with me (credit card, drivers licence, passport etc but also insurance info and soforth) and then paste them all into a PDF file and email it to myself on gmail. Pretty much where ever you go in the world these days you can get on the internet so even if you get robbed down to your skivvies you still have access to your most important travel documents.

I know this isn't what happened here but I just wanted to throw that out there.

R..

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BTW, a PADI shop will be able to look up your card info based on your name and birth date provided to you remember the exact way it was printed on the card.

R..

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

BTW, a PADI shop will be able to look up your card info based on your name and birth date provided to you remember the exact way it was printed on the card.

R..

Which is how I discovered that for my Deep diver class, my name had been misspelled as it wasn't coming up with the other specialties.

 

[Mr Carcharodon]

Just dive in California. I can count on one hand the times I've been asked for a card. BTW it is not a license it is a certification. There is not a legal requirement to have a card to dive, at least not in many places, so disabuse yourself of the notion that a card is a requirement. Of course if you live in a nanny state, which apparently abound, then you may be out of luck.

 

[Bob DBF]

Interestingly, I tried this link. According to it, I have DSD, basic Nitrox and Rescue. Doesn't show OW or AOW, even though you couldn't possibly do Rescue without them.

How old is the original card, my OW from 1980 doesn't show up either. I think their system keeps up with carts from when they started using a computer, but didn't input any old cards.


Bob

 

[Dirty-Dog]

How old is the original card, my OW from 1980 doesn't show up either. I think their system keeps up with carts from when they started using a computer, but didn't input any old cards.
Bob

It's a spelling issue. My middle initial is on some of the cards, not on others.
This tells me, basically, that they're using crap software, since it allows a certification to be registered (Rescue) without the same account showing the OW and AOW certifications.
And that the software isn't smart enough to parse "close enough" and offer them all up.

 

[KeithG]

License? Nope,i do not have one of those.

Training card thingy. Yes. i bought one a long time ago.

People who want to see it? 1 in 3. it should be 0 for 3 but the desk clerk at 1 of the dive ops is we use is a little slow...

 

[Hickdive]

I think you've spotted a gap in the market and someone should create an online resource for divers to store all their certifications.

 

[Diver0001]

Which is how I discovered that for my Deep diver class, my name had been misspelled as it wasn't coming up with the other specialties.

Yeah, always check carefully that your info was entered correctly. The shop where I work uses PIC-online and I get the student to enter their own personal information themselves for this reason.

R..

 

[OliDox]

I think you've spotted a gap in the market and someone should create an online resource for divers to store all their certifications.

Yes, Hickdive, that's exactly the service offered by www.ifdi.info as simple as that.
But of course, to be serious, divers can't register themselves, they need to be registered by their certifying instructors.
IFDI is the online ressource for divers to store all their certifications...
Beside the "classic" certifications, your instructor can also registered any "specific" certification.

 

[Redshift]

This tells me, basically, that they're using crap software, since it allows a certification to be registered (Rescue) without the same account showing the OW and AOW certifications.

You could have had certifications from other agencies.