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Only if renting a dry suit. Own your own usually no caresIs a drysuit certification something for dive shops to care about?
Not quite, the 40 logged doves are to begin the course. To actually complete the Divemaster course and acquire your certificate you need a still low 60 dives.
Here's what doesn't make much sense to me. AOW, as I understand it, would allow me to dive the Spiegel even though, diving a wreck wasn't one of the specialties I did in AOW. The c-card allows me to do the dive.
I PADI-style quickie OW certs have irretrievably tainted the Open Water certification
Do you mean 4 open water dives? It is my understanding that NAUI, LA County, and YMCA training all originally took 15-24 sessions. At my college (I graduated in 1989) it was a 10 week course that met twice a week.I'm not sure if this is a PADI thing or new. I originally certified with NAUI in 1979 our instructor told us to limit our Dives to 100 feet. Other above have described that cert as having no Depth limit. I had 4 dives in the course....
In my experience the standard has gone UP in the last 40 years.