PADI Blue Log Book

[Scott]

Yes you have to do a recipricol heading in AOW, actually two, but unlike OW, in AOW you have to use measurements.
In open water

Conduct only on Dive 2, 3 or 4
Compass Navigation — Swim a straight-line reciprocal course using a compass. Each diver navigates out and back.

In AOW

3. Navigate to a predetermined location and return to within 15 metres/50 feet of the starting point using natural references and estimated distance measurement
(kick cycles or time). Surface only if necessary to verify direction or location.
5. Navigate without surfacing to a predetermined location and return to within 6 metres/20 feet of the starting point using a compass and estimated distance measurement (kick cycles or time).
6. Swim a square pattern underwater, returning to within 8 metres/25 feet of the starting point using a compass and beginning from a fixed location.
Recommended size of square – each side 30 metres/100 feet, or total combined length of approximately 120 metres/400 feet.

If the instructor exceeded standards by teaching and requiring students to navigate out and back using kick cycles, then he just exceeded standards. Your "friend" still has to meet the AOW requirements.
I find nothing in the IM where OW skills are credited towards AOW.
Extra practice never hurt anyone.

 

[SteelRain]

He was suppose to be doing his navigation dive yesterday morning. I will call him tomorrow and find out how it went.

 

[Robert Gillcash]

He was suppose to be doing his navigation dive yesterday morning. I will call him tomorrow and find out how it went.

So, what's the word?

 

[SteelRain]

So, what's the word?

Sorry, completely forgot about the thread. He said the navigation was like 5 minutes. They did a straight line, and a very small square pattern. The people that did OW with the instructor didn't have to come out for the navigation part of the AOW class. He said overall that he wasn't too happy with his class, and his instructor looked terrible in the water. He said he was loading students with 20lbs of weights, and the instructors were standing on the bottom killing corral. Long story short, I don't think he will ever go to that shop again.

Your "friend" still has to meet the AOW requirements.

Yet again, if by using quotation marks around "friend" you think you are being smart by implying it's me, you are not. As already stated (if you bothered to read) it is not me, because I received my AOW years ago. If it was me, I would of just come out and said it, because it's not like you know who I am from a username that is not my actual name.