What is your highest certification?

[EireDiver606]

For me certification level is secondary to experience some use the cert to pound on their chest.

I completely agree with your post but at the same time, the RIGHT experience matters only after you’ve got the RIGHT training.

I’ve seen divers with over 2,000 dives, yes you read this correctly, 2k dives..... who are horrible divers...... it scares me.... what we’re they like at the beginning?.....

 

[BlueTrin]

I completely agree with your post but at the same time, the RIGHT experience matters only after you’ve got the RIGHT training.

I’ve seen divers with over 2,000 dives, yes you read this correctly, 2k dives..... who are horrible divers...... it scares me.... what we’re they like at the beginning?.....

I think it’s very subjective: maybe they are just happy doing what they are doing and they do not feel like they need to do more for their enjoyment ?

 

[EireDiver606]

I think it’s very subjective: maybe they are just happy doing what they are doing and they do not feel like they need to do more for their enjoyment ?

Well maybe they don’t need to do more for their own enjoyment, but maybe they should for those who have to dive with them (in a club) not the most pleasant to dive with.....

I used to genuinely think that having lots of experience automatically made you a good diver, boy was I wrong...

 

[Bob DBF]

No Solo cert listed?

I was interested in information about MSD which prompted the thread. Since I was solo diving before I was OW certified, the solo specialty cert holds little interest for me anyway.



Bob

 

[Superlyte27]

A whole 2000 dives? Lol

 

[scubadada]

I'll dive with @Kharon

 

[tursiops]

I don't consider anything in that column past AOW as any sign of the advancement of skill.Some of the worst divers I've had the displeasure of diving with were DM or INST and I consider MSD a joke.

Your opinion is noted. I'll add that some of the worst I've dived with were spear fishermen and lobster hunters. Both of our opinions are of no value to the thread.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Your opinion is noted. I'll add that some of the worst I've dived with were spear fishermen and lobster hunters. Both of our opinions are of no value to the thread.

You missed photographers.

 

[EireDiver606]

A whole 2000 dives? Lol

Yes 2000 logged dives in Atlantic Ocean mainly so not the easiest of diving either...

 

[Searcaigh]

You missed photographers

That's a whole new thread completely.