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Friend from years back certified through NASDS back in 1976. He wants to get back into diving. I told him to find his old card and take a requalification/update class. OK so far.
He found it and it's an NASDS card. Very good condition original embossed plastic card. Cool. NASDS and SSI merged under the SSI banner. At one point in time, SSI seems to have been issuing replacement for NASDS cards and certs. I found a 2010 replacement form online on how to replace the NASDS card from SSI.
Great. I send him a few links and advise he might want to get a new cert card so as to not risk losing the original plastic card (I'd keep it in the safe, but I digress...) or if the young DM in Raging Armipit or wherever he's going to doesn't recognize NASDS.
Then I go to the blasted SSI site to point him there for an updated form and they kinda flip the bird and say essentially, "eff you".
SSI does not issue replaments for NASDS [SSI] cdrtifications? What gives with that?
He can prove he had a cert issued by the agency that SSI took on as part of themselves: the original, emossed plastic card.
Really? Or did I lose the ability to read plain English?
WHISKEY. TANGO. FOXTROT.
Go to a PADI school and bang out 5 dives and get a new PADI AOW card (or Naui, or RAID or SDI or etc. ???)
He found it and it's an NASDS card. Very good condition original embossed plastic card. Cool. NASDS and SSI merged under the SSI banner. At one point in time, SSI seems to have been issuing replacement for NASDS cards and certs. I found a 2010 replacement form online on how to replace the NASDS card from SSI.
Great. I send him a few links and advise he might want to get a new cert card so as to not risk losing the original plastic card (I'd keep it in the safe, but I digress...) or if the young DM in Raging Armipit or wherever he's going to doesn't recognize NASDS.
Then I go to the blasted SSI site to point him there for an updated form and they kinda flip the bird and say essentially, "eff you".
SSI does not issue replaments for NASDS [SSI] cdrtifications? What gives with that?
He can prove he had a cert issued by the agency that SSI took on as part of themselves: the original, emossed plastic card.
Really? Or did I lose the ability to read plain English?
WHISKEY. TANGO. FOXTROT.
Go to a PADI school and bang out 5 dives and get a new PADI AOW card (or Naui, or RAID or SDI or etc. ???)