How to answer "what is your highest certification level"?

[Ayisha]

ISO certification needs to be renewed, by reassessment every 5 years. So unless GUE got reassessed in 2018 their no longer compliant.

Maybe I should have made it more clear by stating that those GUE courses that I listed above have been EN/ISO certified *since* 2013. I'm not sure if any additional courses got certified later.

My Fundies card was renewed in 2018 with the EN/ISO #'s on it, and it's up for renewal again this summer. It's pretty safe to say that the 2018 ISO re-cert is good till 2023.

 

[formernuke]

I only have my master and nitrox the rest got mistakenly tossed out.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I take pride in earning this certification even more than I do my GUE fundies rec pass!

 

[TMHeimer]

I only have my master and nitrox the rest got mistakenly tossed out.

For the PADI ones lost, just call and request free replacements....

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

For the PADI ones lost, just call and request free replacements....

Free?!?

 

[TMHeimer]

Free?!?

Sorry, trolling I guess...
Actually, funny story. I took a whole bunch of specialties in 2007 to get MSD when in Florida. I waited couple of months for the 5 or 6 cards to arrive back home in Canada. Called PADI and we agreed on lost in mail, so they sent me all replacements (free, of course). Then within a week, the originals did arrive. Anyone want a PADI card?
Now that's what I call "card collecting".

 

[Lostdiver71]

I usually show my IANTD Nitrox Instructor card from 1995. If they don't know IANTD, and I have run into that problem, I will also provide one of my PADI Instructor cards. I have never had an operator require me to buddy with an inexperienced diver but I have been asked in the past, by dive crew that I know, and will usually help out. I actually enjoy showing new divers things they wouldn't normally see on their own and I can usually give them some tips and work with them on becoming better divers. I also have a habit on group dives of keeping an eye on divers that don't look comfortable in the water and have prevented a few incidents, I really hate being on a boat that ends up having to perform a rescue or has an injured diver, it really screws up the rest of the trip!

 

[ginti]

I usually show my IANTD Nitrox Instructor card from 1995. If they don't know IANTD, and I have run into that problem, I will also provide one of my PADI Instructor cards.

Cool that you like to dive with new divers, I like it too

How often did you run into the problem of the diving centre not knowing IANTD?

 

[Lostdiver71]

Cool that you like to dive with new divers, I like it too

How often did you run into the problem of the diving centre not knowing IANTD?

Rarely, but is has happened a couple of times. With dive center staff that are not professional divers.

 

[PBcatfish]

My highest certification - pilot