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re: Getting in to Scuba Diving....
Posted on 4/24/20 at 2:06 pm to DownSouthDave
Posted on 4/24/20 at 2:06 pm to DownSouthDave
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There is nothing comparable to the life on the oil rigs.
Have you seen life on a coral reef?
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don't get your advanced unless you plan on taking it further, it's a bullshite money grab.
Agree to disagree. It depends on the dive shop. Some will actually take you through low viz dives, navigation, night dives, deep dives, etc.
Others will take your money and hand you a DVD.
Also, when you're traveling outside of US dive shops you will get more respect by showing that you have advanced beyond traditional Open Water Cert. It is WELL worth the money to be grouped on a boat along with Advanced/Instructors vs. a packed group of newbies or people that haven't dove in 10 years.
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Posted on 4/24/20 at 2:16 pm to Scooba
as a minimum get certified as far as advanced open water. your cert card will be accepted most any dive shop.
reef diving is great . do not have to go very deep which allows much longer dives.
rig diving is dangerous esp if there is a current. I sold my tanks because almost lost a couple people that drifted off
Posted on 4/24/20 at 3:03 pm to Scooba
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Have you seen life on a coral reef?
Only on the weekends...
Maybe it's because it was things I was doing already, but I got nothing from AOW. The best way I can describe it is that OW makes you a scuba diver, it gives you the tools to go scuba diving. AOW doesn't make you an advanced diver. PADI uses AOW as a platform to take your money while trying to further sell you on their specialty certs...some shops push it, some don't.
I've heard that some places won't even take someone if they aren't AOW and I've heard you will be grouped differently if you are AOW. I haven't seen that personally. I've only seen people grouper by number of dives. I agree, that would be a benefit, I've just not seen it.
Respect...
There is no dive shop that's going to respect you because of AOW. You can literally have AOW 2 days after your OW. You can be an "advanced" diver with like 10 dives...
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