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

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The book is 20+ years old, and the course requires no actual diving experience. Hmmm.
Hi Tursiops,

I have two comments.

Firstly, I have the 2020 (sic) edition of the NAUI Master Scuba Diver textbook in PDF format. It contains 288 pages and can be printed as hardcopy.

I obtained it in 2021 when NAUI was providing free access for people trapped at home etc during the Pandemic to its e-learning system (i.e. one could download the materials and do the e-learning, but payment was required if one wished to do the openwater training etc).

The textbook's ISBN (i.e. International Standard Book Number) is 978-1-57743-041-4. Searching on dedicated ISBN search websites reveals that the textbook is recorded as being published either during 2019 or in August 2019. Hardcopies can be purchased via the NAUI website (i.e. Master Scuba Diver Textbook), however it is likely that the hardcopy is 'out of stock' as it is in my part of the world.

Secondly, I will not argue with you about the matter of the absence of logged dive experience. I personally do not have a problem with logging dives, but my observation is that many divers do not log their dives. In particular, I know of a situation where a group of divers falsified their diving experience in order to get a certification.
 
I would think that the first step toward becoming a Master Diver would be nine weeks of boot camp, then seven weeks of diver preparation course, then fifteen weeks of second class dive schooling, then several months of practical training with other divers in a fleet, and that's just the first step, to second class diver. So that with, what, maybe forty four weeks of hard work, you'd be a second class diver. Then more training to be a first class diver. Then more training to be a Master Diver.

It might be easier to become a Master Scuba Diver, which just requires being pencil whipped through some short courses at a dive shop, and getting in a few dozen recreational dives. Then you could maybe have this:
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