Rooster1
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How many classroom hours and pool hours is required by Padi for OW?? anyone know off the top of there head.
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Originally posted by Rooster1
the reason I ask is cuz my my sister inlaw is starting her padi classes tomorrow and things don't seem right. This is the time frame...It will be 3 days only (3 Thursdays in a row).
Each of these 3 days classes are from 6 pm to 10 pm.
4 hours that starts at the lds for the classroom stuff and from there they have to drive downtown to get to the pool, get in the pool for skills and be done by 10 pm.
From the lds to downtown driving, finding parking, getting dressed for pool= 30 to 40 minutes which means that each classroom and pool combined will be a total of about 3.5 hours per day x 3= 10.5 hours of combined learning dive book and test and learn and know confined water skills,( and this is with 6 students)
I remember when I got certified, it was also done over 3 weeks, but 6 days. 3 mondays of 3 hours of classroom and 3 hours of pool with 7 students which is almost twice as much as she is getting. and to boot I thought we could have used more time in the pool. I remember Some students in our class went to do their open waters with not knowing their skills well enough and some not having done some skills at all because not enough time in the pool. Remembering this I dont know how they are going to get these 6 students up to speed in half the time it took us?
I think all this math is adding up to profit margins:upset: