If you were to design your own OW course, how would it go?

Do you feel about your Open Water training? (Up to 2 choices)

  • Just fine, wouldn’t change a thing.

    Votes: 23 27.7%

  • OK, but there were a few things that could have been better.

    Votes: 51 61.4%

  • Not that great, but I learned barely enough to keep diving and continue to learn more.

    Votes: 14 16.9%

  • Was a complete disaster and I wasn’t comfortable diving because of the lack of training.

    Votes: 2 2.4%

  • ^^ Had to retake OW with a different instructor/agency.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • My instructor was dangerous and shouldn't be teaching.

    Votes: 5 6.0%
  • Total voters
    83

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Jay_Antipodean:
If I could answer how it wouldn't go: My MAJOR gripe of PADI OW and AOW courses is the mind-numbing repetitiveness of the text/text-book and video. It's repetitive to the point that doesn't facilitate learning. In particular, the videos repeat the text, which then repeats itself, and explanatory text for pictures is repeated verbatim in the main text (of the book).
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You mean like in the (old?) Nitrox manual "Don't dive with a tank you haven't personally analyzed or you could die". Oh wait, 2 pages on that..................
 
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