Thalassamania:
And how much is that saying?.
It is just saying, that when all of us got together for a night dive, I was the only one with 2 lights and a glow stick, the other two guys were going to share the same light. I am just doing a comparason between 3 divers finishing OW at the same time, but one learned a little more about night diver than the other 2. All 3 of us were medical doctors - and safety conscious.
Thalassamania:
If you talk the talk and walk the walk they don't ask to see no stinkin' AOW card. And if they don't know the difference, you don't want to dive with them anyway.
I don't have the luxury of chosing my dive opt too much... it is whom ever can fit me in...
The same? You've got to be kidding?
I am just implying, experience from diving will gain you the same content as what is in the book. All you have to do is experience a dead dive light at the surface, and the panick as the boat approach you to realize, you should have a back up light. Information in the Padi OW book - which someone else's experience is written into the book.
You are being a hippocrit in saying that PADI set low standard on their OW, but when someone try to suggest including additional training through AOW, you are suggesting that "experience" through doing 100 dives is better than a course content. I believe this is strictly because you do not like the PADI brand. As it contradict all your other posts concerning the need for higher standards, and how NAUI is so much better.
Frankly no, they just have the people who know better laughing up their sleeve at them. Not as hard as they do when you whp out your PADI MD card though.
You clearly do not understand the issues so you set up a staw man ad hominem, real cute.
I clearly understand the issue here. You are so anti PADI that you let your prejudice get into the way of a diver's desire to gain additional training. Without the content of PADI AOW, I would have minimal understanding of nitrogen narcosis, safety of night dive, and introduction to navigation and boat diving.... These were, and still are, invaluable in my skills as a diver... Not as a PADI diver.
Perhaps, but only because their entry level course sucked. Rescue is still an integral part of quality courses
You are confirming your prejudice, and hypocrisy.... Their entry level course sucked.... confirm what you have been preaching all along.... PADI has inadequate standard, and their minimal standard is too low..
But when someone suggest that a new diver take a course to complement the inadequate PADI course, you chose to shoot it down.
I respect your background as an experience diver, but I have no respect from you as a person who is looking out for the best interest of the recreational diver.
Your motives are dark, and not as altruistic as it seems on the surface.