bzalmano
Guest
I have a couple of questions on getting DM and/or Instructor certification.
I know somebody who is a long time diver and is a certified Instructor Trainer with PADI who I could use to train me for my DM and Instructor. He is an independent and does not have any affiliation with any of the Local Dive Shops (although he knows everybody in all of them). Is there any advantage or disadvantage of going with an independent as apposed to a shop?
Also I have a friend who is an avid tech diver, dives at least a couple of weekends a month. He has never gotten his dive master cert because he feels that it would open him up for liabilities issues even if he was not acting as dive master for the dive, but he was just another paying passenger. Is this true? If so has this deterred anybody else from going for their DM?
I know somebody who is a long time diver and is a certified Instructor Trainer with PADI who I could use to train me for my DM and Instructor. He is an independent and does not have any affiliation with any of the Local Dive Shops (although he knows everybody in all of them). Is there any advantage or disadvantage of going with an independent as apposed to a shop?
Also I have a friend who is an avid tech diver, dives at least a couple of weekends a month. He has never gotten his dive master cert because he feels that it would open him up for liabilities issues even if he was not acting as dive master for the dive, but he was just another paying passenger. Is this true? If so has this deterred anybody else from going for their DM?