Resort Scuba Certification-Is This for Real?

[lmorin]

My wife and I took the Club Med "Club" course. It was excellent primarily because we had a really, really good instructor. We received a certificate that simply confirmed that we had taken the course and that we could go on instructor-led dives at any Club Med during the next year without having to re-take the course. After doing that twice, we decided that diving was pretty much fun and we were wasting money by not being OW certified.

Recently, my son-in-law started into a resort course while our families were all together in the Caribbean. It initially seemed that time constraints would not let him obtain full certification. However, after completion of the resort course, he was told that, given that he would be doing at least one additional dive, he could pretty easily convert the resort course into a full-fledged OW cert course without too much of a time burden. He did it and we now have our two daughters and son-in-law certified.

 

[bleeb]

Some good comments in this thread.

To the OP: Sounds like either you or he (more likely the latter, from the way you describe it), are not clear about how much of a certification he actually has, and what restrictions and limitations it includes, and he may not even be aware that he's misunderstanding. (Or as others have pointed out, some resort cut some serious corners.) One approach might be to clarify what agency he got his purported cert from, and then point him to their web page where they explain the differences between the different certs, and get him to clarify to you what his recommended limits are. Might be an eye opening experience for him.