PADI Does Revoke Certifications

[Jim Lapenta]

Send your cards back? Tell em to go pound salt. They get their cards when you get the processing fee back. What are they going to do if you don't? Nothing. Nothing they can do. The deep card is meaningless anyway in itself. Just a piece of plastic no one will ever ask to see. As for the drysuit, unless you plan on renting a suit it (the card) has no value either. They do make dandy ice scrapers in a pinch and are not bad for jimmying a lock. And no magnetic stripe to mess up doing it.

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[eelnoraa]

What is great way to discorage people to report mis behavor instructor??

 

[Doc]

If PADI sent you the cards, trust me, their balance sheets reflect payment. Likely they're concerned bout liability due to your substantiated reports.

Keep them or throw them away, or even send them back.

They were never of any real value anyway. Who would ask to see them and for what?

Get the training, not the plastic card.

 

[ffdiver]

What was the issue with the class?

 

[Graeme Tolton]

Send your cards back? Tell em to go pound salt. They get their cards when you get the processing fee back. What are they going to do if you don't? Nothing. Nothing they can do. The deep card is meaningless anyway in itself. Just a piece of plastic no one will ever ask to see. As for the drysuit, unless you plan on renting a suit it (the card) has no value either. They do make dandy ice scrapers in a pinch and are not bad for jimmying a lock. And no magnetic stripe to mess up doing it.

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+1 on the ice scraper.
Imho, that is the value of a lot of the certs that are offered. There is a long list of what i would stick my neck out and call money grab cards.

The best way to learn to dive a drysuit is to dive with others who are diving them. It is a long process to perfect using a drysuit so doing a dive or two with an instructor will only start you on your way.

As for the deep diver cert, this USED to be covered on advanced open water before padi got greedy and added all these extra specialties.

 

[USFpsychDiver]

Interesting information, and nice to know, although how useful is unclear. As other's have mentioned, these certs don't get you anywhere (as you and I know -- we've gone diving together in a cave at 100' (Little River) with me in a drysuit and I've never taken a formal Deep or Drysuit class). I think we've all seen divers that we'd like to report and get their OW card pulled, but I don't know how that would work -- kind of like wanting to turn in anyone who cuts you off on the freeway and getting their driver's license revoked. The financials are interesting -- PADI did (apparently) certify this instructor to teach the courses, and as a for-profit entity has some responsibility to stand behind their credentialing, even though they only got whatever small portion of the fee you paid the instructor. Good luck getting anything out of them -- they know the cards are only worth the price of the plastic and they don't really care if they get them back or not. Live and learn. I'm looking for a reputable instructor out here in the desert for Advanced Nitrox/Deco Procedures -- now there's a useful class.

See ya.

 

[TracyN]

what action did they take against the instructor?

I know they are investigating her but that's about all I know. I do know that once the investigation is complete PADI will let me know but they won't tell me what actions were taken, if any.

 

[OldNSalty]

As for the deep diver cert, this USED to be covered on advanced open water before padi got greedy and added all these extra specialties.

Hell, it use to be covered in the basic class and then re-enforced in the advanced...or maybe I just had a good teacher.

 

[Graeme Tolton]

Hell, it use to be covered in the basic class and then re-enforced in the advanced...or maybe I just had a good teacher.

Yeah. Times sure have changed. My ow class was like boot camp ( not padi). We were even shown decompression tsbles and learned about what they meant.

 

[scubadiver888]

I know they are investigating her but that's about all I know. I do know that once the investigation is complete PADI will let me know but they won't tell me what actions were taken, if any.

PADI would have received payment for processing the cert. You should be able to get that money back. Talk to PADI and ask about getting the processing fee refunded. If you can find the Instructor and take her to small claims court, a letter from PADI confirming you did not receive the appropriate training would help as well. They should give this to you as a sign of goodwill.