No way. What might be reasonable would be for a club to require a certain amount of OW dive experience per year to maintain active membership. But a pool checkout? Ridiculous.
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The way I read this was 25 dives/year is likely someone who doesn't live in a year-round diving location. So 12-13 days of 2 tank diving, assuming that you've got a vacation in there (you're probably doing 10 of your dives on that trip) and then six days throughout the year. Are you really so crisp that you can't use a $10 pool session?
I'm pretty rusty when I'm out of the water for more than a week... can't imagine taking a winter off.
As an active diver (25 dives a year) would you join a club that wants you to do an OW pool certification every year?
A few more details, we're semi land locked in Ga the closest place to get in the water is 3 hrs away, and then that's seasonal. This club also wants you to go on 3 dive trips a year with them. I myself do an equipment/buoyancy/skills poll session before every dive trip. My feelings are if you are an active diver with verifiable log book or computer. doing OW pool every year is a little unnecessary. This includes the swim float portion also. I was just wondering if I was over thinking the situation.
TS&M the pool session would only cost $10
Depends, if they were all done within a month and then 11 months without diving, then a refresher makes sense.
And there's nothing wrong with going to the pool, I've gone several times of my own free will.
I belonged to a club where anyone 6 months out of the water had to go snorkeling