OW with SSI, AOW with another agency?

I'm taking my OW cert. with a dive shop that is affiliated with SSI. By October, I will be relocating to PA (I live in NJ). I just checked the ssi website and there are no SSI dive shops near where I live.
Would it be possible to take my AOW certification with another agency like PADI or NAUI?

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Would it be possible to take my AOW certification with another agency like PADI or NAUI?

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Of course it would. Many people have different levels of certification with different agencies. As is so often said here, it's the instructor that is the most important factor--not the agency. Check out the shop(s) and find an instructor that you think you would enjoy diving with and have fun!

And greetings from former NJ-ite. What exit?

Hi, I"m SSI too, and in Pa, where r u moving too???

...with WileE Diver it is the instructor. But you have to have several more dives to get your SSI Aow card then some of the other agencies. I believe that experience is extremely important. I do not believe most divers are capable of getting an OW card Sunday afternoon and then becoming an AOW diver the next weekend.
I was PADI certified made a trip to Cozumel then did my AOW dives the following weekend and I know now that there was no way on earth that I was an advanced diver.

Get a bunch of dives then take the course.

Joe