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The certified OW diver should not be taken and should not go past the certification limits unless on a training dive ex. AOW or deep speciality. That's what I have understood from my DM training...
and you will be certified to a max depth of 60'
There is a recommendation not to exceed 60’
Once certified, you can dive as deep as you want. There are no police beyond individual dive ops. You are, by common practice, allowed to dive to 130 feet (rec limit) unless the dive op requires an AOW cert. On your own, you can do what you want.
I was limited to 40 feet on my PADI open water dives back in 2008
During my DM course I was never told anything about what depths an OW (or other) "should" go to.The certified OW diver should not be taken and should not go past the certification limits unless on a training dive ex. AOW or deep speciality. That's what I have understood from my DM training...
Wow, I am truly shocked at the cynical nickel-and-diming involving students these days. How many classes are they now expected to take, to reach the thirty meters, that we dove, back in the 1970s, in our initial open water class?
And the only reason why I took any further courses, were for fulfill picayune university requirements; that, and the inexpensive access to boats, at that time . . .