Question True requirements to deserve the title of Master Diver???

[rhwestfall]

I'd have to locate my notes (long ago, not happening), but the class topics (from my calendar) and elements/dives (from my memory) for the NAUI MSD were as follows (everything was about diving up here, cold, dark, limited vis):

* Every NAUI class reviews and performs rescue techniques.

1. Responsible Diver Techniques (entries/exits [you ever do an entry from 15' above the water surface?], air share/buddy breathe, BC breathe, CSEA, navigation, weight check, gear configurations, signals, weather, probably more stuff....)
2. Wreck Diving (diving from a boat, including etiquette, sketch/measure/document, identify features and then select object from other written documentation, terminology)
3. Equipment Operation/knowledge/care/inspection and basic maintenance
4. Deep/Decompression Theory (SAC/RMV, Rock Bottom/gas management, narcosis, lights/signals, exposure protection (cold), equipment selection (cold) and primer to deco. Dive on a wreck at 130' to the mud in Lake Erie (cold & dark)
5. Search & Recovery (search patterns, rigging, lift bag use, lift calculations, gear planning and implementation, teamwork)
6. Plan/conduct a night river drift...

Master of nothing, but a substantially broader experience base than OW/AOW...

The LDS used the class to identify DM candidates....

I originally certified in a YMCA program that actually covered OW/AOW/some rescue, and a significant part of this MSD, and did deco planning. When I took AOW, Rescue, and MSD as classes, it did repeat topics many times... but you still learn when working with another professional.

YMMV

 

[GS-111]

Q: True requirements to deserve the title of Master Diver?​

More dives than posts?

 

[Cthippo]

I think the real take away is that a recreational diver will never be considered worth or respectable on this forum, and even full cave divers are only begridgingly respected.

 

[Tigerpaw]

I Propose:

1- Complete the navigational part of Advanced open water, while back kicking, compass as the only reference.

I thought about this and said you know what let's do it. I navigated between two "wrecks", a helicopter and cessna plane which were about 100ft apart. I shot a back azimuth to the helo and away I went. I will say it was a challenge to maintain my heading since I was going backwards. Needless to say I ended up being about 5ft from the cessna. It was interesting and I also got to really practice my back kicks. Yeah I didn't do an entire nav course, opting to do one leg since I was solo.

 

[MarkA]

Q: True requirements to deserve the title of Master Diver?​

More dives than posts?

This is an Internet forum. Shirley it’s the other way round

 

[grantwiscour]

Travel / Tipping - now this is possibly the most important scuba skill to master in the recreational space. Do you travel often and tip well? If so, come dive with me at my master diver exclusive resort... nvm

Henry Hill was a proponent of Over-Tipping. Go above and beyond...I like that kind of gratitude.

 

[grantwiscour]

I think the real take away is that a recreational diver will never be considered worth or respectable on this forum, and even full cave divers are only begridgingly respected.

Well...respected by whom? Are you/we looking or needing respect from the SB klan? I don't really see it that way but I have gotten old(er) here on SB.

The "card-collector" that takes a cruise each year and manages a couple dives is one type of rec diver. The knuckleheads that I see on youtube with pretty good gear doing self-guided dives but touching everything in the gulf and taking fish for their aquarium that's even a different type of rec diver.

The people that I see showing up at scuba parks with their spouse or family and doing self-reliant dives. Proper trim, proper technique and not needing or caring whether someone is approving of their style...
The local divers you see outside of Kona doing shore dives...give some respect. The water out there isn't real friendly.

Maybe it is because I have more grey and time than some...what some see as cool or clique is really limited in the real world. Dive, dive, dive. Enjoy diving and the time underwater...someday it could come to an end and all we could be left with is arguing with others on an antiquated version of social media.

 

[pauldw]

I think the real take away is that a recreational diver will never be considered worth or respectable on this forum, and even full cave divers are only begridgingly respected.

Maybe you're in the wrong place. Go over to Reddit, and look at r/scuba. Anyone there with more than one post certification dive gets respect. And, the focus there is on actually important things. Right now, the top post is on increasing the strength of your bubble rings. I don't know if cave divers can even make bubble rings.