CrawfishDiver
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I am looking into taking a dive con class but it is expensive for my buget any thoughts on if its worth the money??
SSI Dive Con.... or not
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How much is the class, out of curiosity.
Just get out there and dive more. SSI requires a high level of dive porficiency before commencing the Dive Con course. Its also requires in store experience to complete it.
I know SSI requires you to have 25 dives before commening there AOW course...
I would suggest just getting out there and diving as much as possible, getting up your experience levels. If your not looking to become and instructor, or work on a dive boat there is no benneficial reason for you to do the Dive Con course. you can always do it later.
I know SSI requires you to have 25 dives before commening there AOW course...
I would suggest just getting out there and diving as much as possible, getting up your experience levels. If your not looking to become and instructor, or work on a dive boat there is no benneficial reason for you to do the Dive Con course. you can always do it later.
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get more dives in.
To be honest,I would rather dive with a experienced diver(have more than 100+ dives and have dove in different conditions) who is not a dive leader compared to a Dive con or Dive master who has v.little dive experience under their (weight)belt.
What i have typed is not to put you down.
To be honest,I would rather dive with a experienced diver(have more than 100+ dives and have dove in different conditions) who is not a dive leader compared to a Dive con or Dive master who has v.little dive experience under their (weight)belt.
What i have typed is not to put you down.
i concurr. some people rush through there traning.
I find it incredulous that someone with 10 dives can be said to be an "Advanced Open Water diver", whereas I have 32 dives, 2 of them on a wreck, on to 30 meteres, multiple nav dives and drfit dives, and im only an Open Water diver. Its not about what your C-Card says, but what youve got in your logbook.
To give you an example. There is a guy i dived with a while back, and he is an AOW diver, but can barely control his bounyancy, and kept finning into me. Clearly he is not an "Advanced" diver at all.
If someone says theyre an AOW diver, they may have the card, but I never dive with them until i see there log book.
If you have your AOW card, then you have enough to pretty much dive anywhere. just go out and get he experience to back that card up with your log book.
That being said, nice going for wanting to continue your diving education, but its not just about the courses, its about real world expereince. this is something i stress upon myself all the time.
if its going to finacially stretch you at the current time though...divings the best, but its not worth jepardising your lively hood for. You may want to wait a few months and just put a bit aside each month for it until you have a nice slush fund to do it without having to worry about if your going to be able to feed yourself and your dogs.
I find it incredulous that someone with 10 dives can be said to be an "Advanced Open Water diver", whereas I have 32 dives, 2 of them on a wreck, on to 30 meteres, multiple nav dives and drfit dives, and im only an Open Water diver. Its not about what your C-Card says, but what youve got in your logbook.
To give you an example. There is a guy i dived with a while back, and he is an AOW diver, but can barely control his bounyancy, and kept finning into me. Clearly he is not an "Advanced" diver at all.
If someone says theyre an AOW diver, they may have the card, but I never dive with them until i see there log book.
If you have your AOW card, then you have enough to pretty much dive anywhere. just go out and get he experience to back that card up with your log book.
That being said, nice going for wanting to continue your diving education, but its not just about the courses, its about real world expereince. this is something i stress upon myself all the time.
if its going to finacially stretch you at the current time though...divings the best, but its not worth jepardising your lively hood for. You may want to wait a few months and just put a bit aside each month for it until you have a nice slush fund to do it without having to worry about if your going to be able to feed yourself and your dogs.
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Sorry I should update my profile I have about 98 dives once I download my computer. I have been lucky enough to dive many different areas of the world, but the diving near home consists of deep arkansas lakes.The lakes can get boring quick with out a mission. They want about 1,000.00 dollars for the course and materials. I am not looking to be a dive leader but was hoping maybe I would learn some thing new. I got master diver at 50 dives which I agree is a little light. I am not looking to train people just get better at what I do. I wanted to know if anyone has taken the course if they think it is worth it.
I hanvt taken the course...but you wont learn anything new from the DiveCon course. Have you done the Stress and Rescue Specialty?
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It's an excellent class, however it's not easy or quick, and the end goal generally is to produce a Dive Control specialist that will work for the shop, doing actual work (helping in class, helping with checkout dives, teaching Scuba Skills Update, etc.), and if you want, eventually become an instructor.CrawfishDiver:
Also, once you're done with the class, you need to pay SSI annually to keep your certification current and also pay for liability insurance if the shop doesn't cover it.
If you want to dive, then dive. If you want to teach and help, then by all means take the DiveCon class.
Terry
PS. I just checked your profile. With less than 50 dives, you don't qualify for the class, and I wouldn't recommend it until you have way over 100. Diving as a DiveCon is worse than diving solo, since you not only can't count on a reliable buddy, you'll be responsible for a bunch of people who expect you to keep them safe no matter what they do.
What do you want out of your diving?
If you want to work as a divemaster and possibly go on to be an instructor, then it will be what you want to do. That is, if you want to work with an SSI shop.
If you don't want to have anything to do with the teaching aspect of diving then I wouldn't bother with the class.
I've taken the course, thoroughly enjoyed it, and walked away with some awesome experiences and friends.
If you want to work as a divemaster and possibly go on to be an instructor, then it will be what you want to do. That is, if you want to work with an SSI shop.
If you don't want to have anything to do with the teaching aspect of diving then I wouldn't bother with the class.
I've taken the course, thoroughly enjoyed it, and walked away with some awesome experiences and friends.
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yes I took the stress rescue specialty it was the most fun I have had so far. Thats part of what made me think about taking the dive con.
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