I'm seriously bummed.
I finally decided on a shop that teaches SDI for my AOW classes. I like the training strategy and philosophy, I like the teachers, and I just generally like the shop. Then I started running into problems.
Their AOW requirements are 4 "specialty" classes and 25 logged dives. So I registered for a weekend over which you could take both Night and Navigation courses... and I had a death in the family, so I had to cancel.
Then I planned for another weekend with Deep and Computer ... and I had to work.
Now I thought I had to work this weekend, but now I don't, so I called to schedule the Night and Navigation for this weekend... but I can't make the requisite classroom appearance tonight because of freaking work.
So, my next opportunity is for Deep two weeks from now (I'll have to miss it's companion Computer class due to, guess what... work).
I'm angrily toying with the idea of reverting to PADI (my OW cert agency) for my additional training, but am brought to my senses by the safer seeming teaching style of the SDI shop & diver number longer than Pi.
At this rate I'm going to have the requisite number of dives before I get the chance to take a single other class.
I finally decided on a shop that teaches SDI for my AOW classes. I like the training strategy and philosophy, I like the teachers, and I just generally like the shop. Then I started running into problems.
Their AOW requirements are 4 "specialty" classes and 25 logged dives. So I registered for a weekend over which you could take both Night and Navigation courses... and I had a death in the family, so I had to cancel.
Then I planned for another weekend with Deep and Computer ... and I had to work.
Now I thought I had to work this weekend, but now I don't, so I called to schedule the Night and Navigation for this weekend... but I can't make the requisite classroom appearance tonight because of freaking work.
So, my next opportunity is for Deep two weeks from now (I'll have to miss it's companion Computer class due to, guess what... work).
I'm angrily toying with the idea of reverting to PADI (my OW cert agency) for my additional training, but am brought to my senses by the safer seeming teaching style of the SDI shop & diver number longer than Pi.
At this rate I'm going to have the requisite number of dives before I get the chance to take a single other class.