SDI: Advanced Adventure vs Advanced Scuba

[CptTightPants21]

When you say "accept," could you explain what you are talking about? Accept for what?

Accept as in allow to dive on his boat, come on a trip, etc.....Exactly what I have been saying the entire time.

---------- Post added November 5th, 2014 at 06:40 PM ----------

Sorry we missed that one, Stuart. Computer Nitrox MAY be counted towards Advanced Diver, in addition to one other non-diving specialty (CPROX, Equipment, VIP, etc). However, this is a minimum, an instructor may require additional ratings in order to sign a student off for Advanced Diver.

Safe Diving,
Jon Kieren


Training and Member Services

The wording should be something along the lines of "Two non-diving specialties may apply to the Adventurer card provided one of them is Computer Nitrox"...perfectly clear and doesn't need extra commas or parentheses.

 

[BrewsKampbell]

What Cpt. has mentioned. Could I take a certified PADI AOW diver to 130' that has only 8 dives? (Whatever the minimum is for their AOW). Absolutely. Would I though? Most likely not. I'm not saying they're not capable, I've seen people with far more dives that are dangerous divers and the number of dives isn't proof they're a good and capable diver but if it's someone I've never dove with or met before I need to use something as a baseline. Everyone is free to use their own judgement.

 

[boulderjohn]

What Cpt. has mentioned. Could I take a certified PADI AOW diver to 130' that has only 8 dives? (Whatever the minimum is for their AOW). Absolutely. Would I though? Most likely not. I'm not saying they're not capable, I've seen people with far more dives that are dangerous divers and the number of dives isn't proof they're a good and capable diver but if it's someone I've never dove with or met before I need to use something as a baseline. Everyone is free to use their own judgement.

I was asking because I did not know what you did as a profession that called for you to accept or not accept a certification level.

BTW, PADI AOW max is 100 feet.

 

[RJP]

The wording should be something along the lines of "Two non-diving specialties may apply to the Adventurer card provided one of them is Computer Nitrox"...perfectly clear and doesn't need extra commas or parentheses.

Which, of course, a great many people would misread as saying that they MUST have two non-diving specialties... Computer Nitrox and one other.

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