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True. PADI instructor can add appropriate material/ skills, that maybe useful for their area, but cannot withhold certification on abilities of added material . Of course he/ she must stay within training standards.To be fair, so do PADI and NAUI, that I know of, and quite possibly others. In 1980 PADI and NAUI could hold you accountable, withhold cert, for not knowing added material. PADI has since changed that policy, I don't believe NAUI has, but someone with more knowledge can clarify.
Not everything is in the book and it never addresses local conditions, I believe a good instructor will add the information to make you a better, safer diver.
Bob
Thanks for the link. As my general impression is you are a basher and not a supporter, I was pleasantly surprised to find such a positive article at that link.
@Randallr
Sir, you mentioned that you are diving for 35 years and you have less than 500 dives (if information in your profile is correct). This means that you were diving less than 14 dives a year. This is a very small number. If I would have 14 dives a year I would forget how to dive. It is the same as to have drivers licence for 35 years but to drive a car only few weekends per year. Definitely AOW course will be beneficial for you as I do not believe that you could have appropriate dive skills by diving only few times per year. You will spend 2 days during which you will have 5 dives. It is quite easy program but it will be a very good skill refresher for you.
The books are purchased ahead of time and are in their inventory. They do not want to be sending away for books when a diver shows up to take the class. That is only done for courses that are rarely taught.What does that even mean? The book doesn't cost the dive shop money if it's not purchased.
LOL. You need to find a new complaint; that sort of thing has not been part of PADI's AOW for many years.And that the deep dive was to 70 feet for 10 minutes at most to open a lock or write your name backwards.
The books are purchased ahead of time and are in their inventory. They do not want to be sending away for books when a diver shows up to take the class. That is only done for courses that are rarely taught.
....and the law, by the way.I really don't know what motivates a particular dive shop to do something that seems to be frowned upon by some diving instructors.
....and the law, by the way.