Further Training/C-Card Statistics

[Walter]

Looks like it's a pretty good question then!

What makes it a good question? The fact that it cannot be answered?

 

[rstofer]

Here you go - they don't break it down for you so you will need to do the maths yourself.

PADI Statistics

They also give an e-mail address, so you might be able to persuade some nice person at PADI to give you more exact figures.

You can't do the math because the number of divers taking specialties may include divers taking more than one specialty. Therefore, there could be far fewer divers taking ANY specialty than the numbers would indicate.

For 2006, PADI Americas had 177k new certifications and 106k continuing education certifications. From these numbers we could conclude that 60% of new divers take at least one continuing education course. Somehow, I doubt that... I doubt that 60% of new divers even continue diving.

Richard

 

[leapfrog]

What makes it a good question? The fact that it cannot be answered?

In this case, specifically: YES.

 

[scubadada]

I have also been interested in this question. I do not recall where the data came from, but I recall that less than 5% of active divers progress to Rescue Diver. I would love to have accurate, contemporary statistics, obviously, PADI and other agencies have this information.

Good diving, Craig

 

[Walter]

No, they don't. They only way they could have that information would be for all agencies to share data on all of the certifications. They aren't going to do that. I'd doubt I'd be the only one really ticked it they did. I doubt many agencies even know when they've issued another certification to the same person.

 

[Doppler]

I would love to have accurate, contemporary statistics, obviously, PADI and other agencies have this information.

Actually, we track some simple conversion stats, and we conduct surveys, but the data are creative rather than valid.

In 1994 when I joined TDI, we used a figure of 100 open water certifications to produce one technical rating. This was a useless stat and has become increasingly meaningless over the past 15 years.

Dive stores do a much better job than agencies. Instructors do better yet... or should. If you want accurate data, start digging there.

 

[Scott L]

I have a good question. What percentage of new divers asked a question on Scuba Board about training and/or equipment and got ridiculed then gave up the sport?

 

[rstofer]

Probably just those that were going to give up anyway. You can't take this Internet thing too seriously.

Richard

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

I consider SB the unwashed 1%.

 

[Rhone Man]

Probably just those that were going to give up anyway. You can't take this Internet thing too seriously.

Richard

The Internet is just a fad. It will never catch on.