C-Cards

[Nudgeroni]

Depends on which agency. If you just did the PADI AOW with 5 dives then you will get a single card for AOW with no specialities since you have not made the required 2 dives for each specialty.

If you took an SSI Advanced Open Water...

Unless the student wants to pay for the 4 individual cards they are just listed on the AOW card.

Multiple creds on one card, sweet. I think having a pocket-full of cards makes the whole PADI card system seem kinda silly. Why not list specialties on one card, or provide stickers for added credentials?

 

[namabiru]

If you took an SSI Advanced Open Water then you actually took 4 complete specialty courses which together with 24 total dives gets you your AOW card. You can take any 4 specialties you want in SSI, but 3 must be diving specialties. I usually teach Deep, Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility and Equipment. The sudent must make 6 scuba dives with me. (Equipment has no dive requirement) They will usually receive just one C-Card but it will list all 4 specialites on it they have completed. SSI lets the student be flexible with the 4 specialties. If the student wants he, and the instructor can do Deep, Wreck, Navigation and Nitrox for the 4 or many other combinations. Unless the student wants to pay for the 4 individual cards they are just listed on the AOW card.

Ah yes, I forgot that SSI does that--lists the specialties out on one card. That's kind of nice. I went through the PADI (yes, put another dollar in) program, and I now have this brilliant wallet chock full of C-cards. I had to buy another wallet just to put c-cards in. Ha!

 

[namabiru]

If you took an SSI Advanced Open Water then you actually took 4 complete specialty courses which together with 24 total dives gets you your AOW card. You can take any 4 specialties you want in SSI, but 3 must be diving specialties. I usually teach Deep, Navigation, Night/Limited Visibility and Equipment. The sudent must make 6 scuba dives with me. (Equipment has no dive requirement) They will usually receive just one C-Card but it will list all 4 specialites on it they have completed. SSI lets the student be flexible with the 4 specialties. If the student wants he, and the instructor can do Deep, Wreck, Navigation and Nitrox for the 4 or many other combinations. Unless the student wants to pay for the 4 individual cards they are just listed on the AOW card.

Ah yes, I forgot that SSI does that--lists the specialties out on one card. That's kind of nice. I went through the PADI (yes, put another dollar in) program, and I now have this brilliant wallet chock full of C-cards. I had to buy another wallet just to put c-cards in. Ha!

 

[divingmedic]

Yes I like my one card from SSI, well actually two since I have nitrox as well.

 

[Paco II]

Just to add to the mix. When I did my SSI AOW, I had already completed Stress and Rescue and >50 dives, so I received a ssi master diver card that listed all the specialties plus s&r. kind of wished I also had just the AOW card, but they said I would have to pay extra for it, so I skipped it

 

[diverbob]

I dont know where all my PADI cards are. The only ones I carry with me is my DM, my DSAT Tec Rec and my Cave. That will get me anywhere I want to go right now. When I finish trimix in a few weeks, that will replace my Tec Rec.