What's My Number?

[Ironcat]

I usually dive with the same bunch of people so this has not come up until recently.
I am NAUI certified but nowhere on my card does it list my "number" for filling out my buddies dive logs.

I asked a NAUI instructor who told me that it was my social security number.
1. I am not giving strangers my name and SS just cuz we dove together.
2. That guys shop is since defunct.

Anyone able to help me with this?

 

[rockjock3]

I have three NAUI tech cards and the only number they have on them is the instructor number. I also checked the replacement form on their website and it doesn't ask you for any kind of number (except the instructor number). I would just put down your name and NAUI for cert agency/number.

 

[Sideband]

NAUI no longer issues a number except for instructors.

 

[DeepSeaExplorer]

Don't give anyone your SSN.

 

[Firefyter]

I just put "NAUI" in the space provided, and it works.

 

[LindaBluedolphin]

NAUI no longer issues a number except for instructors.

I was not aware they (NAUI) ever issued numbers to individuals (other then instructors), I just usually write down "PIN" if asked on a waiver. I am not really sure it is all that critical. If you are diving at a resort, or off a dive boat, many (but not all) have dive stamps you can use in your log as another verification.

Although I do keep a hard dive log, I have met many divers who don't, some just upload it into their computer from the dive computer and keep track of it that way..

 

[Walter]

Your instructor was correct. Instead of giving out your SS number, write ""SS#" (not the actual number) on the form/log.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Wow ... is this something that PADI actually does right?! Ignore the fact that I have like 10 different numbers because I get a different one for each cert. But if you take your highest main certification (OW/AOW/Rescue/MSD), at least you have a unique but yet non-meaningful (i.e. not SS#) number to use to uniquely identify yourself.

 

[spectrum]

Don't fret the numbers, this isn't evidence collection. It's just someone's vision of what belongs in a dive log. I'd leave it blank. Putting "SS#" is OK.

Pete

 

[Walter]

Wow ... is this something that PADI actually does right?!

Only if you believe you need a bunch of extra numbers.

Ignore the fact that I have like 10 different numbers because I get a different one for each cert.

Why would you ignore that? It's ridiculous.

But if you take your highest main certification (OW/AOW/Rescue/MSD), at least you have a unique but yet non-meaningful (i.e. not SS#) number to use to uniquely identify yourself.

What's its purpose?