I had J take AOW during a trip on the Nekton Pilot, which provided plenty of downtime for the "classroom" stuff and the in-water exercises barely impacted her dive trip given the amount of diving we were doing. She never had any previous issues with just a standard nitrox cert and had already logged over 150 dives, but I thought it worth buying the card as we were planning to dive the Spiegel Grove later in the year and I had heard scare stories of dive ops demanding the AOW cert to dive deep. She also had thought about doing a rescue class at some point and AOW was a necessary prereq.
It was sort of funny last week on the shuttle van to our hotel in Cozumel when we were chatting with another passenger about "advanced" dives, which I meant in a completely different sense. She proudly boasted that she was an Advanced Open Water diver as if that settled the matter. I bit my tongue and graciously kept my opinions to myself.
It was sort of funny last week on the shuttle van to our hotel in Cozumel when we were chatting with another passenger about "advanced" dives, which I meant in a completely different sense. She proudly boasted that she was an Advanced Open Water diver as if that settled the matter. I bit my tongue and graciously kept my opinions to myself.