Is certification necessary for shallow water diving?

[Waterwulf]

Do you know any operator in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand will let you do that ie. without certification card?
Deep or shallow makes no differences.

The point that I was making, was that the card is one thing but the training is another. The original question was is certification required to dive shallow water. I understood the word "certification" to mean trained. A Certificate is proof of that certification. Sorry for the word confusion. Besides, I don't know any dive operators at all in those areas but I might know some Operators there.

 

[dmaziuk]

You either do not understand what "good" and "bad" means or you are being a moron. Which is it?

FWIW I killfiled Flipper long time ago so I don't have to ponder that question.