m0nster4h1re
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Sounds to me (especially with only 1 post to your name) that you are more unhappy with a dive shop than the company doing the certification and are now bashing an entire organization over a bad experience with a specific place/people. Also, as one experienced diver told me, the adventure dives are more for getting you time in the water than for milking money out of people. If you happen to sign up for something extra, more power to the organization to have gotten you to do that.
Thanks for responding, but bashing PADI due to a bad dive shop is not what I'm doing. The dive shop definitely didn't help the matter, but our primary unhappiness was due to PADI's inflexibility and inability to provide us with any good reason why they wouldn't credit us with a deep dive class taken with another organization. My opinion of their adventure dives is my own and thank you very much, but I'm keeping it.
I expect that by referring to my, "only 1 post", that you are either trying to discourage myself and other new members to scubaboard.com from posting our opinions on discussions, or are trying to invalidate my response because it's ridiculous to think that a person with only one response could ever form a valuable response to another's question. My understanding was that this is supposed to be a friendly discussion zone where, "divers of any skill level may ask questions about basic scuba topics without fear of being accosted".