Specialty card rules?

[DiveMaven]

Does an instructor have to be affiliated with a shop to do training and issue c-cards for specialties, or can they do it independently? :06:

 

[cerich]

PADI, NAUI, ACUC I can say with absolute certainty they can, SSI they can NOT.

Others I'm not so sure about.

Hope that helps,

Chris

 

[The Kraken]

"NOT" to which one?
Not affilliated or not independently?

 

[cerich]

NOT teach independlently of a shop

 

[Walter]

As far as I know SSI is the only agency that requires shop affiliation.

 

[Ron Brandt]

A PADI instructor can teach and issue without any shop afilliation.

I now have my own "shop" but it's not in PADI authorized catagory and will probably never be.

Ron

 

[CompuDude]

Does an instructor have to be affiliated with a shop to do training and issue c-cards for specialties, or can they do it independently? :06:

As the Oceanic guy above mentioned, the answer is yes with many agencies, but not SSI.

That said, I can tell you that, at least for PADI, they need to be specially certified (and pay a fee to PADI) to teach each specialty class. The nice lady at my LDS who teaches photo is annoyed that she has to send PADI another $50-something so she can teach the new "Digital Underwater Photographer" specialty course, because people will be asking about it due to the D word. (Despite the fact that the course is lame and teaches you way less about photography than the regular class.)

 

[www.scubamazing.com]

yeah, not required to be linked to a shop in PADI