problems with getting nitrox cert card

[wedivebc]

All the PIC cards I've ever filled out were blue. But no matter what color it was, it was the cert pack you filled out which cannot be sent in without your picture in it. The temp cert card is a part of the PIC card and is good for 90 days.

Did you take the cert pack with you when you left so that you could get a picture for it and mail it at your convieniece? If so then you are probably going to have to fork out another $25 to replace it.

There would be no reason for the instuctor to mail the cert pack to "you". He would mail it directly to Padi once the form was completed and has your picture. If you didn't have a picture to submit with the cert pack then the instructor would want "you" to mail your picture to him.

I guess we have different ones in Canada

 

[divenut2001]

I guess we have different ones in Canada

Yeah, and 5 bucks cheaper too...
Hey Dave, do the cert cards issued in Canada have the Maple Leaf on them?

 

[wedivebc]

Yeah, and 5 bucks cheaper too...
Hey Dave, do the cert cards issued in Canada have the Maple Leaf on them?

see pic in my last post :06:

 

[divenut2001]

see pic in my last post :06:

Right, I saw it on the PIC card, so I guess you're trying to tell me it's on the Cert card too. Ok, I get it now.

 

[wedivebc]

Right, I saw it on the PIC card, so I guess you're trying to tell me it's on the Cert card too. Ok, I get it now.

Sorry mis-read the previous post. I don't have any Canadian emblems (maple leafs beaver etc) on any of my cards. I guess it's time we adopted a national fish then we could put it on a cert card.
How about it Canadians, let's have a referendum to adopt a national fish? I vote for a buffalo sculpin.

 

[pt40fathoms]

Sorry mis-read the previous post. I don't have any Canadian emblems (maple leafs beaver etc) on any of my cards. I guess it's time we adopted a national fish then we could put it on a cert card.
How about it Canadians, let's have a referendum to adopt a national fish? I vote for a buffalo sculpin.

I think it should be a bird instead of a fish, a Loon to be specific. The reason is simple, the Loon flies then dives for fish, just like most of the scuba divers certified in Canada.

 

[pt40fathoms]

Sorry for the previous hyjack.

As to your predicament of obtaining the C-card for a Nitrox certification you paid for. The problem is really quite simple, and not very nice. Your instructor, going by what you stated, was not certified to conduct the course you paid for. If he gets another instructor to sign off on the certification, that is fraud, and both of them are subject to stiff consequences by PADI. Your options are also simple. Compel the individuals to deliver what was paid for, specifically a Nitrox Certification card. This option may get you a card, but do you in the end feel that you know enough to be safe with Nitrox. If so then pursue this approach, but I would have to recommend the following option. Get your money back and obtain certification from someone else. That is of course if they will give you your money back. The third option is to detail all you can and forward it to PADI. This will probably not get you a Nitrox certification or your money back, but it will get them in very hot water.

I wish their was an easy solution to this problem, but their isn’t. Only simple ones, all of which have some difficulties to deal with.

I wish you a satisfactory outcome; and try to keep us posted on the outcome if you can.

 

[Shasta_man]

I recently took a Nitrox course on the BBE in Palau. We had class time, then had to take a final exam. Afterward, for the sole reason of not having a photo to attach, the instructor, filled out his info and signed it, and gave us the entire packet. I brought it back to the states, affixed my photo to the application, filled in my personal info, took the temporary card off the application and sent the rest in. It went through Australia and I got my card in a few weeks.

For $175, I got the class and that was it, no books, not even the air conversion tables or the EAN specific tables. I used their class materials then returned them.

There's the experience info you wanted.

Since you're being blunt, lose the experience trumps anything attitude. I don't want to die because some college kid felt they had plenty of experience to overcome the emergency I need you for. When you go into convulsions at...how many feet was that again?...

good luck

Well, I completed a somewhat loose "class" in a recent trip I took, and have yet to recieve the cert card.

this is a PADI cert

details asside, I am wondering:

1. what process does an instructor have to go through (as far as paperwork goes) to get a diver certified in nitrox. Does he have to send in a paper seperate from the students "cert packet" to confirm to PADI that the student is certified? Is there only the cert packet that the dive instructor gives the student?

basically, an instructor claims that he gave me the packet to send into padi to get my card. Unfortunatly, I really do not think he did. It was discussed, however in the end time did not allow, and he had planned on sending it to me in the mail.

either way, maybe i somehow lost the packet, or maybe he just didnt send it to me. I want to know exactly what needs to be done. I paid 150 bucks for the class, and am going to the USVI and BVI in a month, so I need to get the card.

Thanks for any help!

p.s. mods: if this might be better answered in a different forum, please let me know!

edit: my point in question 1, is that i am hoping if perhaps the actual "packets" are easy to come by and the important part is the instructor sending a sepereate letter in (that he could NOT have accidently not sent in and blaimed on me) that I might be able to just get a packet from a local dive shop.

 

[shoelessone]

thanks for the information!

I do feel that good instruction is very important. I pride myself at being a good "text book" student for diving purposes, including the nitrox class. Once again, I read over the dive book on my own time, for my own knowledge. and I feel that I know what a PADI diver class that was reputable would have wanted me to know. Still, in a real world situation, although book knowledge prepares you, experience in the water is what makes me at least feel comfortable and able to think clearly.

Anyway, i've emailed the guy, and told him i'd pay him another 20 bucks or whatever for another packet, i'm still waiting for a response.

Thanks!