AOW Course materials/agency

[Krisscuba]

My wife competed her rescue with SSI immediately after her open water with PADI, she did not have the 20 dives yet, required for the advanced cert.

I hold a instructor rating for rescue/safety that does not require the person to be a scuba diver. Designed for those left on the beach, kids, parents, spuses that connot or do not want to scuba.

they learn rescue with mask fin snorkel, CPR, first aid, equipemnet. more than normal divers learn in open water class. This gives themsomething to do and be apart of the activities.

 

[SubMariner]

As has already been indicated, the PADI Adventures in Diving Course consists of 5 dives: Nav and Deep are mandatory, while you get to pick the other 3.

For ALL dives there is academic work that must be done. If you have not done your Open Water (or equivalent) with the Instructor who is doing this course, you must first complete the Scuba Review test, which will assess your knowledge of dive theory. You may also be required to do an in-water skills assessment called The Skill Circuit.

Regarding the Adventures in Diving course itself, you must do the required reading, then complete all the Knowledge Reviews & Quizzes.

The Instructor makes the course. Interview the Instructor, get references & follow up on them. Go with the dive professional who shares your goals & interests.

In the end, you get out of the course what you put into it, regardless of agency.

~SubMariner~