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Originally Posted by stevead
By PADI standards the certifying instructor is the instructor who does open water dive #4. The "universal referral" concept that allows some instructors to accept referrals from other agencies (with different standards) is sure to cause confusion and imo is a bad idea.
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Since PADI does not participate in Universal referral, I don't know why you are bringing up PADI standards, but since you did...........
By PADI standards, the certifying instructor must insure that all PADI requirements are met. If they are accepting a referral from another agency, those requirements are not met. Certifying the student instead of returning the paper work to the referring instructor is not only unethical and a breach of contract, but a violation of PADI standards.