Padi & ssi

[Pyramid65]

Does anyone have both PADI & SSI OW certifications? I'm currently enrolled in one but as it turns out will most likely be diving and advancing with the other.Realizing it's the same end, they have different training techniques and I'm curious how that would affect my continuing education.

 

[scoobydrew]

Many people have training from a variety of agencies, they are interchangeable and most are very similar in their course content. At this level I would not pick a course based on an agency but base your decision as to who to go with on the person delivering the course.

It is perfectly nomal for example to be SSI Open Water and then go strainght in to do your PADI Advanced Open Water

 

[Steve_C]

I have done a mix of SDI, PADI, SSI. Doesn't matter which until you reach a Pro level then SSI has a bit different structure. Even at the Pro level you can cross over but there is sometimes more involved.

 

[Pyramid65]

Thx for the input

 

[boulderjohn]

If you are seeing different training techniques, that is a difference among instructors, not those two agencies.

 

[santauk]

I've been PADI since I started, and only last year completed my advanced nitrox extended range course with SSI. I have to say I was impressed with the training materials with SSI and also the course as a whole... Far better than PADI tec course, which incidentally I'm doing the Tec 45 course just now. If you get a chance to do the SSI one grab it....

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[spc751]

I started with SSI and then switched to PADI because the PADI instructors were MUCH better than the SSI instructors in my area. Don't worry about a different agency, the courses are about the same. Pick a good instructor.

 

[1bubbleoff]

Pyramid..I am with a shop that is both PADI and SSI....that being said..the basic "standards"...taught..are very similar...the difference between the 2 in my experiance is in the teaching styles..and instructor mindset. I very much believe...that you choose an INSTRUCTOR...not an agency..per se.

A GOOD instructor will teach you more usable knowledge than any agency...as well as help you develop into a diver..not a c card carrier. Just my opinion.

I find myself more attuned to the SSI style of teaching than PADI...I think the SSI "mindset"...is an incredible asset to a new /developing diver.

 

[Pyramid65]

Here's one thing I was taught in class both in the classroom and pool, that seems wrong to me and the only way we ever did it, which to me means when you get out in the world, this is what you do otherwise it wouldn't be taught this way....When someone comes up to you and gives you the out of air signal, you remove your 2nd stage, put the octo in your mouth and give them your second stage. The reason being is, they are gonna go for the air supply they see. Doesn't seem right for me to remove my air and pass it, why not just give them the octo right off the bat, isn't that why it's been hanging there all this time?When I talked to a Master from another agency they said twist your body to the left and hand the octo over.Having said that, I just bought a BC with an Air 2 so I'm gonna be pulling the second stage outta my mouth anyway but unless the industry/sport is totally switching over to Air 2's it just doesn't make sense, in fact the instructor added an octo to his regulator (having an Air 2 setup) for the classes so he could demonstrate how to do the switch. I was a lifeguard and Combat Medic in the Army and during training for both, we were never taught to put ourselves in danger prior to helping someone out, that's not to say I didn't/wouldn't, it's just not what your are taught.

 

[Bigd2722]

I was involved in a panic situation last year. The person who was out of air did not give the out of air signal, he just flapped his arms. When I didn't respond, he grabbed the regulator out of my mouth and then I went to my octo. If you are being taught this method, it is (imo) a very good thing, because that's what you will run into in the jungle.

Here's one thing I was taught in class both in the classroom and pool, that seems wrong to me and the only way we ever did it, which to me means when you get out in the world, this is what you do otherwise it wouldn't be taught this way....When someone comes up to you and gives you the out of air signal, you remove your 2nd stage, put the octo in your mouth and give them your second stage. The reason being is, they are gonna go for the air supply they see. Doesn't seem right for me to remove my air and pass it, why not just give them the octo right off the bat, isn't that why it's been hanging there all this time?When I talked to a Master from another agency they said twist your body to the left and hand the octo over.Having said that, I just bought a BC with an Air 2 so I'm gonna be pulling the second stage outta my mouth anyway but unless the industry/sport is totally switching over to Air 2's it just doesn't make sense, in fact the instructor added an octo to his regulator (having an Air 2 setup) for the classes so he could demonstrate how to do the switch. I was a lifeguard and Combat Medic in the Army and during training for both, we were never taught to put ourselves in danger prior to helping someone out, that's not to say I didn't/wouldn't, it's just not what your are taught.