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Hell hath no fury as an unwarranted assumption.Interesting to know the history behind how we ended up with today's course structure.
It looks like breaking the classes up to keep people coming back for more (and reducing the initial course fee) predates PADI then? If NAUI had OW, OWII, and Advanced rather than just a comprehensive course it seems that PADI was just following in this regard.
How long back does one go to find the days (and which agency?) of one comprehensive class (OW) and that's it?
NAUI's program back then was a "comprehensive course" running 40 hours with five dives. Being California based back then NAUI recognized the need for four more leadership led dives (just dives, no skills, no books) and that was Open Water II, Advanced was about 8 dives with lots of book work.