New LDS in Austin?

[Hemlon]

Not so much "false ID Cards" as handing the students the temp ID card and not filing the actual PIC with PADI. He/they managed to string along several students for several months. Much to PADI's credit, they did the good-faith thing and processed the certifications based on the temp cards as long as the signing instructor was an active instructor at the time (they were).

I managed another shop in town and we got real familiar with PADI's QA department resolving these for the stranded customers.

There are several equipment manufacturers that don't have good stories to tell about them either.

Unless someone new bought the shop and it is under new management, I would warn anyone doing business with Deep Blue to be VERY cautious.

Yikes. :shocked2:

 

[PvilleStang]

Not so much "false ID Cards" as handing the students the temp ID card and not filing the actual PIC with PADI. He/they managed to string along several students for several months. Much to PADI's credit, they did the good-faith thing and processed the certifications based on the temp cards as long as the signing instructor was an active instructor at the time (they were).

Well, last I heard, Thom had his instructor membership suspended / revoked and was still selling the certs, giving them temp cards, and filing their cert paperwork in the round bin on the floor next to his desk. He got away with it until a couple came back from their trip to Mexico and wanted to keep diving. PADI wouldn't let them have a cert, so they had to get a new one, which is where Mack came in and hooked them up. And since that point, Deep Blue has been teaching TDI/SDI for OW certs.