How many dives did you have when you did AOW

[beejw]

Just curious as to what the dives:cert level ratio is kinda.

AOW at 34

-> edit: Please post the number of dives you had if over 25. cheers.

Beej

 

[MaxBottomtime]

386 dives.

 

[Queen]

I had 50+ when I took AOW (sorry I don't remember the exact number, it was back in '84).

 

[dl348]

I had approximately 20-25 dives when I took AOW.

 

[Rick Murchison]

"AOW" didn't exist when I got certified...
By the time I got around to it I'd been diving for 25 years, so my "data point" isn't really relevant to the question
Rick

 

[mikerault]

I had 84.

Mike

 

[HowardE]

I had 55. I only took it because ops in Key Largo want an AOW card to dive the "deep wrecks" without a DM or Guide.

 

[Footslogger]

I actually had well over 400 dives before I did the AOW course. My original NAUI certification in 1971 was pretty extensive and incorporated many of the skills taught in the more modern AOW programs. That said, once I got certified I dove a lot ...sometimes as often as 4 days a week. My dives were mostly shore dives in south Fla. It was many years later that I committed to a PADI AOW course in Atlanta. Once I got back on the training track I stuck with it and went for my DM.

 

[Thalassamania]

I fear that I still have not bothered.

 

[brutus_scuba]

I only had about 15 in. And really I know divers who have never taken an AOW and are much better divers then me. I feel like I got robbed by an AOW course. I mean to some degree I had enough dives in that I felt comfortable in the 30 ft. quarry and it was nice to expand my horizon a lil' with an instructor present but really at the price I paid it didnt' seem worth it being that a lot of the people I dive with are very very good divers who I would have been comfortable pushing my limits a little more. Now I feel like the dives that I did in my AOW course were easy compared to some of the dives I make now. Oh well!!