PADI Equipment specialty course

[Sam Miller III]

@Erich S
8 hours a day for 5 days is 40 hours of instruction.

VS

"My PADI equipment course was definitely worthwhile. The instructor was the shop tech. There were only two of us. We opened up, cleaned and adjusted our own second stages and learned how to remove, open up and clean out our Dry suit valves and did some wetsuit repair."

Difficult to comprehend that this was a "repair course"

sdm

Ask what it will cover before you sign up.

 

[ams511]

@Erich S
8 hours a day for 5 days is 40 hours of instruction.

VS

"My PADI equipment course was definitely worthwhile. The instructor was the shop tech. There were only two of us. We opened up, cleaned and adjusted our own second stages and learned how to remove, open up and clean out our Dry suit valves and did some wetsuit repair."

Difficult to comprehend that this was a "repair course"

sdm

Ask what it will cover before you sign up.

Sam, you seem to be getting grouchier in your old age. Your posts talk about the "old days" even if it is not relevant to the topic. Then you make a snarky comment.

The equipment specialty course is NOT the same as a regulator technician course. The tech showed him how to handle regulator / drysuit problems in the field not how to rebuild regulators.

 

[Sam Miller III]

@ams511-- who just doesn't log dives

Sam, you seem to be getting grouchier in your old age. Your posts talk about the "old days" even if it is not relevant to the topic. Then you make a snarky comment.
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yep !
Suggest YOU place me on your ignore list
SDM

 

[ams511]

@ams511-- who just doesn't log dives

Sam, you seem to be getting grouchier in your old age. Your posts talk about the "old days" even if it is not relevant to the topic. Then you make a snarky comment.
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yep !
Suggest YOU place me on your ignore list
SDM

Why? I like pointing out how you are wrong.

 

[tursiops]

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[Manatee Diver]

What is in the class depends on the instructor, there is no required curriculum from PADI unlike other specialties.

 

[tursiops]

What is in the class depends on the instructor, there is no required curriculum from PADI unlike other specialties.

Well, actually there is a curriculum and an instructor guide.
Whether people follow it is questionable.

 

[Manatee Diver]

Well, actually there is a curriculum and an instructor guide.
Whether people follow it is questionable.

Hmmm the instructor I talked to said that there wasn't one.

 

[Jim Lapenta]

Hmmm the instructor I talked to said that there wasn't one.

Find another instructor. Or service course. There are some of us whose equipment course tends to be more comprehensive and thorough because we actually are authorized techs for one or more lines. I'm actually a regulator technician instructor so my classes go a bit more into depth. They are not the reg tech course that I teach to HOG and Deep Six reg owners, but they do go more into diagnosing and addressing issues commonly encountered.

 

[Manatee Diver]

Find another instructor. Or service course. There are some of us whose equipment course tends to be more comprehensive and thorough because we actually are authorized techs for one or more lines. I'm actually a regulator technician instructor so my classes go a bit more into depth. They are not the reg tech course that I teach to HOG and Deep Six reg owners, but they do go more into diagnosing and addressing issues commonly encountered.

I ultimately decided to simply take the Deep Six course one of these days. Probably about the time mine will need their first service.