How to start an certifying agency?

[Charlie99]

I wonder just how hard starting your own certifying agency would be? I wonder who would honor it?

My bet is that most places would take any card that has some sort of scuba cert agency name. It wouldn't be hard to make a plastic cert card that looked more "real" than some of the really old ones from the "real" cert agencies.

I'm also pretty sure that it will be accepted most places. Once in the Keys, just for a lark I handed the dive op my Japanese Driver's License and told him it was a cert card from "Japan Scuba Agency". The driver's license has my photo and my name in english, but everything else was in kanji and katakana. He accepted it readily, with the only question being which set of numbers on it was my certification number.

 

[SparticleBrane]

Cubic, metric dollars

Like these? You'll need to start up a meth lab to get this kinda cash, though.

$205.6-million in mostly $100-bills:

 

[in_cavediver]

Like these? You'll need to start up a meth lab to get this kinda cash, though.

$205.6-million in mostly $100-bills:

So is that how you finance your dive habit?:no

 

[Thalassamania]

Don't you all know about Universal Diver Training International?

Starting an agency takes nothing, nada, zip. Just a little time. There are plenty of generic materials out there. Incorporate properly (or have no assets and insurance is not needed, though anyone can likely get it) and you really don't need to worry about acceptance, as long as your trainees really walk the walk and talk the talk everything is fine.

 

[1_T_Submariner]

Make sure you fail enough people to gain lots of credibility. If you pass too many people that have paid to be trained in basic scuba the "Die Hards" will never respect you or you agency. (In reality some people should be screened before taking the class). Good luck.

BADD - Bad *** Dedicated Divers

 

[DiveSite]

With all the experts on ScubaBoard, I'm suprised that Scubaboad hasn't formed an agency and started issuing c-cards.

 

[300bar]

With all the experts on ScubaBoard, I'm suprised that Scubaboad hasn't formed an agency and started issuing c-cards.

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