Not allowed on a boat because of your dive agency card?

[Thalassamania]

Back in the 1980s, Paul Heinmiller and I did a full revision of all NAUI standards from Skin Diver up through the ITC, this was a multi-year project that involved first meetings with the membership all over the country and Canada. We then prepared a set of Proposed Standards that were circulated to all members with a questionnaire, and after analysis, and meetings in most of the Branches, we put together a final set of standards. When we started there was Skin Diver, Open Water I, Open Water II, Advanced, Rescue, Asst. Instructor, Divemaster and Instructor. When we were done the structure was essentially what you see today.