NAUI vs PADI

[Walter]

Your analogy is flawed. People don't resell their c-cards.

 

[Brendon]

Two instructors and their students are on board a dive boat
in the middle of the ocean. There is a NAUI instructor and PADI
instructor. Everything is going fine until the boat springs a leak and starts
to sink. The NAUI instructor says to his students, "Okay, we might as well
do our navigation dive, so let's get our compasses out and swim towards shore."
The PADI instructor says to his students, "Okay, for $75 extra you guys get to do a wreck
dive!"

PADI being the largest does not mean it is the best as previously posted...

 

[k ellis]

Your analogy is flawed. People don't resell their c-cards.

My analogy is what it is. I never implied I would resell cards LOL I was stating the value of the cards is worth more world wide then Nauis. Sorry if you read too deep into it.

 

[Searcaigh]

You might find that NAUI is not common or almost non-existant in some areas, it really depends on where you plan to sail. I guess you are looking at Indo-Pacific region, be carefull of pirates

 

[Brendon]

Here are somethings for all you wannabe's to know.

NAUI has been active in South Africa since 1980, almost 20 years. Today there are about 1500 NAUI instructors in the country. In a recent survey conducted by Divestyle, the country's only dedicated diving magazine, NAUI-certified divers in South Africa were found to far exceed those of any other agency.

Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the inventor of the aqualung, was on the board of advisor's of NAUI, as was Albert R. Behnke, a pioneer of diving medicine.[1] Actor Lloyd Bridges was the first honorary NAUI instructor member. He played frogman "Mike Nelson" in the American television series, Sea Hunt, which popularized scuba diving. Buster Crabbe, the famous Olympic swimmer and movie star, was a NAUI instructor. Other celebrities who are certified NAUI divers include Kevin Costner, Lou Gossett Jr., and Cameron Diaz; Tiger Woods is a NAUI divemaster member. Most of the top universities, colleges and institutes of technology in the United States certify diving students through NAUI, including the US Navy, SEALs, Army Special Forces, and NASA astronauts for civilian diving licenses.

NAUI is the fastest growing scuba agency in Europe and middle-east
due to its award-winning educational materials. FACT

NAUI has educational materials in the following languages; English, German,
Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese (traditional), Chinese (simplified),
Korean, and expects to have upcoming the following; Hungarian, French,
Thai,Greek Arabic, also working on Romanian, Czech, Polish and many more to
follow.

Dive centers in theses countries: Pacific Rim
Australia China Hong Kong India
Indonesia Macau Malaysia New Zealand
Philippines Saipan Singapore South Korea
Taiwan Thailand

Some of you are confused, or maybe you didn't hear NAUI is worldwide. In either case, PADI's piss poor performance of late will make it easy for NAUI to excel beyond any of PADI's poor business plans. I'll take a small group of well trained soldiers any day over an army of...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

... nice rant ... but ...

NAUI has been active in South Africa since 1980, almost 20 years ...

... that would be 31 years ...

I'm proud of my association with NAUI ... but these agency-wars get old rather quickly. And they never really provide any helpful information for the person trying to decide how best to get trained to dive ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[k ellis]

I agree with you Northwest. I dont understand why people take such hatred of one over the other. They all have very similiar training in the open water portions though there would possibly some minor diffrences. Over all the diver learns his core skills and really from their the possibilities are endless. As I have stated in other threads many divers never go beyond their open water cert and they are awesome divers. I know a lot of divers who have hundreds of dives over 20 to 30 years and yet they only have an open water card.

With this in mind many have dove in Europe, Hawaii, all over the carribean and Asia. None have ever reported having any real issues to speak of and a handful have SSI and Naui while the rest predominantly are PADI.

 

[CuNanoTube]

Well, similar to a degree. I have found that the NAUI courses are more comprehensive then the PADI courses I have seen. I took the NAUI nitrox certification exam today (not hard, got one of 50 wrong due to a bubbling error). One of the other people in the club decided to do it via PADI. Since the instructors could do both they did the PADI cert for him. His course and exam did much less math and relied more on the use of a computer.... This is way off topic I am stopping now.

I am a big fan of NAUI, but go where the money takes you.

 

[Walter]

I was stating the value of the cards is worth more world wide then Nauis.

Value is a matter of opinion.

 

[k ellis]

Value is a matter of opinion.

That it is. One mans trash is another mans treasure good morning Walter