PADI general standards page 12 or OW manual page 1-15, OW course recommended hours 31 Class/confined water/OW.
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halemano:
Actually, you dont need to complete the KR before the Adventure Dive, only make sure they understand the info to safely complete the dive. They can hand in the KR at any point, but you cant give credit till they do.
liuk3
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Randolphscott:!
Can you please summarize in one simple post for us all?
Summary:
If you take 2-weekend OW course and are a noob, you're $crewed.
If you take a longer more time consuming/complete OW course and are a noob, you're less $crewed.
Either way, as a OW-certified noob, you are $crewed until you get more experience after receiving your C-card and find more experienced people to dive with and learn from.
How's that?
liuk3
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loosebits:
OK. How about this then?
More training is better than less.
More experience is better than less.
Scuba Brian:
I see in GS&P page 13 (digital manual); rec. hours - open water - 31. Similarly, Open Water Diver; 1-16 - Key Standards - Recommended course hours: Aproximately 31 (Scuba Diver 19), based on a class of 10 students. I do not see class/confined water/OW. Does PADI consider reading the book and completing the KR's part of the course? I tell my prospective students 32 hours, 8 on homework and three days with the instructor.
In my hypothetical 2 days with instructor class, there are maximum 4 experienced watermen/women as students. Adding the 8 hours of homework gives 24-28 hours, comparing well to PADI's 31 hours for 10 average students. What I should have said is "PADI does not make any statement with regard to minimum course duration, except to say that we may only conduct three training dives on any given day (24 hrs).
RS
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liuk3:
Heh heh. That'll do. Good advice.
R
I was certified though a university, semester was 16 weeks long in 1992. 8 classroom session, 1 1/2 to 2 hours at a time. Instructor went through the book (PADI), then added a lot of other stuff for us to read, review and think about. We also had 8 pool sessions, first one was in the lap pool, getting used to our equipment, if you got scared all you had to do was stand up. The remaining 7 sessions were in the high-dive pool, 15' deep, this allowed you to experience some pressure and lots of room to maneuver (sp).
After college I only dove a few times, due to lack of time and money. Fast forward to last year, my wife did her open water certification (PADI), I remembered about 75% of what I was taught and through a little review I was acing her quizzes of me 100%. I am all for the longer learning, more classes and more diving. I tagged along on the open water certification dives, the instructor and DM were suprised it had been over 10 years since I dove. Take the longer instruction, you will not regret it.
Ken
After college I only dove a few times, due to lack of time and money. Fast forward to last year, my wife did her open water certification (PADI), I remembered about 75% of what I was taught and through a little review I was acing her quizzes of me 100%. I am all for the longer learning, more classes and more diving. I tagged along on the open water certification dives, the instructor and DM were suprised it had been over 10 years since I dove. Take the longer instruction, you will not regret it.
Ken
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i'm not sure when my class is over. (It's a PADI cert. by the way.) It started Jan 11 and is once a week. We had the swim test, diving/breathing, and the rest were classroom sessions (gear, physics). We were supposed to dive last week, but it was cold(? see other thread lol). This week is another classroom b/c there is a swim meet. I am not even sure when this class ends. The inst. asked if there was anyone who wanted to try for cert. before Spring break, so this makes me think the class is longer. than most of the phys. ed. classes. See, the regular ones are only a couple months. I dunno, but I guess whenever the class is over, that's when I will take the cert. test which is 4 dives over a two day period. It sort of sounds similar to yours ktrjc, i hope i am getting enough schooling, this thread is worrying me.
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