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I'm planning on taking a paid car ride from the airport, but just don't want to take more than I have to :)

I am flying into Marathon,Fl for a long weekend so I will have no car of my own and don't want to rack up to many paid car rides. What hotels have scuba onsite or a quick walk? Really looking for a reasonable cancelation policy, something in the range of 3 days. I did see Glunz near Deep Blue...

Thank you so much, but maybe in the late spring. :) a few too many vacations already planned and to much $$ spent through the end of '17.

If it were up to the students who already have the specialties (me, sea_otter), we'd love to make it easy. But if you read the whole thread then you will see how many instructors don't agree. I agree it's weird that it is so difficult but unless Padi finally decides to email me back with...

Hope it works out for you two! I had hoped to have time this fall to decide what to do, maybe it will happen or maybe it will wait till next year ;)

Yep, that all seems about what I got out of this thread that I started! I was just curious about what possibilities there were to use the existing specialties already accomplished, but now that I know there are none it annoys me. All of our records are on a system in Padi's possession; it is...

I asked a similar question the other week and I have enjoyed reading the above responses. I think many Americans would agree that we wish our own systems would take a few giant strides back from tipping! I am an employer in a non-tipped industry, although occasionally one of the employees will...

Well that took a weird turn for a little bit.... But back on topic, it did throw me a bit when last summer on a non-scuba trip someone said they tip the housekeeping daily. It made me wonder: is the tip for the previous days work or to bribe today's worker to do a good job? If it was for...

I was recently reading an article about tipping in general, specifically how in the US it is normal, whereas other countries it is not. It got me thinking about tipping in scuba and the related services of traveling. The only thing that springs to my mind of anecdotes is while leaving Jamaica I...

@rsingler thank you! I have trouble getting to local classes, but I find ways to go away on vacation every few months and frankly I need to leave my house/business/dogs/horses or I won't relax! I can get it done in the required timeline if I knew that I wanted to do it! Add on that I have family...

The idea really just came up because we had the opportunity to extend a vacation in Nassau by a few days in October and was looking at changing the current scuba reservation, but the wrecks all looked 65ft+ so I was considering doing the Deep Water to then get that out of the way so it wouldnt...

@boulderjohn What I am reading is that I cannot complete the requirements via Padi specialties that I earned from various shops without ultimately having an instructor to sign off (see post #5) on a final application and as was said in that post, money is one motivation. Look at it from my...

@MichaelMc I get what you're saying :) it's just a little confusing to get my head wrapped around why a business would set things up like that - and maybe hope they are considering a change if they read this! If Padi says I got a certification on a certain specialty, then why make another...

Hmmm, I hope for their sake they have a contingency plan for people who can't stick with the same instructor throughout. If it is true that the head organization doesnt honor their own specialty certifications as proof of completing the Adventure and/or Advanced then it doesnt seem like a good...

So to amend the question: If over time a diver acquires several diving specialties out of town with different instructors for each, can they get their Adventure Diver cert and then complete the Deep & Nav and get the AOW. Here is my personal situation: I have no scuba at all in my county...

On reading about the AOW everyone seems to be saying that it is just the different specialty dives as long as one is Deep and one is Navigation. So I have a sort-of rhetorical question: if over time I obtained 5 specialties on vacation including the Deep and Navigation, would I qualify for an...