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Kristopher
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Kristopher
Oak leaf cluster if you succeed.
A few years ago I spoke with the instructor who creaetd this cert for SSI. It was designed to allow newly-trained divers (in Northern Europe in particular) to dive in pools without supervision until the weather cleared enough for local checkout dives. The Brussels NEMO pool (100 feet deep) is a perfect site for this.Really? I'm amazed that PADI didn't think of this first...lol. I realize that the intent of this is to give people more time working in confined water and getting more comfortable with the equipment and being underwater in general, it just seems funny to me. I also love that the website says in large letters at the top of the page "THE INDOOR DIVER CERTIFICATION - UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES!" Unlimited possibilities.....as long as you're in a pool... Ok, I'm done. SSI is a good cert program, this particular certification just struck me as being hilarious.
Kristopher
A few years ago I spoke with the instructor who creaetd this cert for SSI. It was designed to allow newly-trained divers (in the European Low Countries in particular) to dive in pools until the weather cleared enough for local checkout dives. The Brussels NEMO pool (100 feet deep) is a perfect site for this.
And the cert requires four training dives deeper than 15 feet.
At least that's my recollection,
Bryan
PS. Wish we had one here during our Oregon winters.