SSI Indoor diver certification

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Kristopher

 

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heheheh, I just found a place that will make plastic ID cards online for like $10/ea. Now I'm forced to wonder just how far I will go for a joke.

Kristopher

 

[2 Big 2 Fail]

Two gold stars will be added to the cert card for each time you attempt to make someone who asks a simple question feel like a reall a$$hole.

Kristopher

Oak leaf cluster if you succeed.

 

[knfmn]

Oak leaf cluster if you succeed.

I almost spit my water all over my keyboard when I read that one!

Kristopher

 

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Really? I'm amazed that PADI didn't think of this first...lol. I realize that the intent of this is to give people more time working in confined water and getting more comfortable with the equipment and being underwater in general, it just seems funny to me. I also love that the website says in large letters at the top of the page "THE INDOOR DIVER CERTIFICATION - UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES!" Unlimited possibilities.....as long as you're in a pool... Ok, I'm done. SSI is a good cert program, this particular certification just struck me as being hilarious.
Kristopher

A few years ago I spoke with the instructor who creaetd this cert for SSI. It was designed to allow newly-trained divers (in Northern Europe in particular) to dive in pools without supervision until the weather cleared enough for local checkout dives. The Brussels NEMO pool (100 feet deep) is a perfect site for this.

And the cert requires four training dives deeper than 15 feet.

At least that's my recollection,
Bryan

PS. Wish we had a pool like that here during our Oregon winters.

 

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A few years ago I spoke with the instructor who creaetd this cert for SSI. It was designed to allow newly-trained divers (in the European Low Countries in particular) to dive in pools until the weather cleared enough for local checkout dives. The Brussels NEMO pool (100 feet deep) is a perfect site for this.

And the cert requires four training dives deeper than 15 feet.

At least that's my recollection,
Bryan

PS. Wish we had one here during our Oregon winters.

I would love to be able to go dive the Nemo pool. I think that is an awesome idea. I wish we had one like that around here, too.

Kristopher

 

[Inked Medic]

If you go to Jules Underwater Hotel in Key Largo you can sign up for the PADI Aquanaut certification. Out of all the off the wall certs out there, this one by far sounds the most fun.