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View Poll Results: Who Are You Certified Through?

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  • SSI

    31 10.88%
  • PADI

    167 58.60%
  • SDI

    10 3.51%
  • NAUI

    41 14.39%
  • NASDS

    3 1.05%
  • YMCA

    6 2.11%
  • IDEA

    1 0.35%
  • PDIC

    4 1.40%
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Thread: What is Your Affiliation?

 


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    Thumbs up What is Your Affiliation?

    I know its not really important, but I'm just wondering who was certified where. If you want - post your certification story. I'm eager to see the results and hear some stories.

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    Can't pick more than one. NAUI, NASDS/SSI, IANTD.
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    hmmn got my first card from PADI but it was at a resort and didnt really know anything. got trainned at home by the LDS and all other cards are SSI

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    Mostly PADI

    I'm a Padi Pro but have taken classes with SSI and NAUI.

    Cheers.

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    you can only vote once? I am ow-PADI, AO/W, EANx-NAUI. My O/W course was through the local Community college in Austin, which was a sweet deal, $115 to get cert. Strangly enough, I failed the class but still got my certification....The course was a blast, the instructer allways had some entertaining anecdote and these fins that looked like the came off a giant duck.
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    I have certs from PADI and IANTD, and I've taken a class with GUE. I also have an observer rating with NOAA, but that's not really a certification as such.

    In any case, I don't consider myself "affiliated" with any agency.
    Last edited by MSilvia; March 19th, 2007 at 04:25 PM.
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    PADI got me started, and the story of that is linked in my signature.

    NAUI was my Nitrox cert.

    Since then, it's been GUE.
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    YMCA, SDI/TDI, NAUI, GUE, IANTD, NAUI Tech ...

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    Naui, Padi, Ssi

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    I picked NAUI because it was my most recent. But have PADI OW, AOW, and Nitrox, SSI Stress and Rescue, and NAUI Master Scuba Diver.
    PADI - OW, AOW, Nitrox
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