If you were to do just one Navigation dive (there are three in the specialty), you would qualify for AOW. You may want to find an instructor who would do that one dive with you and certify you for AOW.
Historical equivalencies
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I think you are worrying about nothing.
1. There are lots of smaller agencies - who issue cards that not every operator is familiar with, and no one is preventing those divers from diving. I should know - I have plenty of them!
2. NASDS is still alive in Europe - NASDS | Dive with NASDS
3. It's not that hard to figure out - anyone can look up that ssi purchased nasds, and ssi calls their ai "Dive Control Specialist", and you have "Dive Coordinator".
4. this is the most important one:
If this is true, and I were you - knowing what I know now - I would take the UTD Essentials of Recreational Diving course, and then consider if I wanted to take Rec 3 after that ...
Essentials of Rec Back Mount · UTD Scuba Diving
I looked through my old NASDS open water book printed in 1995, and reviewed a chart that showed the names of the certification levels, and they were like today OWD, AOW, etc. Professional levels i.e. dc were not mentioned.
cheers
1. There are lots of smaller agencies - who issue cards that not every operator is familiar with, and no one is preventing those divers from diving. I should know - I have plenty of them!
2. NASDS is still alive in Europe - NASDS | Dive with NASDS
3. It's not that hard to figure out - anyone can look up that ssi purchased nasds, and ssi calls their ai "Dive Control Specialist", and you have "Dive Coordinator".
4. this is the most important one:
If this is true, and I were you - knowing what I know now - I would take the UTD Essentials of Recreational Diving course, and then consider if I wanted to take Rec 3 after that ...
Essentials of Rec Back Mount · UTD Scuba Diving
I looked through my old NASDS open water book printed in 1995, and reviewed a chart that showed the names of the certification levels, and they were like today OWD, AOW, etc. Professional levels i.e. dc were not mentioned.
cheers
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