denniscloutier
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On a recent trip to the Philippines we had one of the dive shop managers ask us for our AOW c card. When he found out that we only had OW he seemed concerned and wanted to limit our diving. Fortunately the tour organizer had a word with him and we were able to dive with the rest of the group. I am now wondering if I might run into this again.
My wife and I got our OW certification in 1989, and over the next few years we put in about 50 dives in the cold water around Vancouver, BC. We then stopped diving for about 15 years until we decided that we had enough money to try tropical diving. Since then we have put in about 200 dives in Roatan, Cozumel, Bonaire, Chuuk, Palau, Yap, La Paz (Mexico) and the Philippines. We also picked up our PADI drysuit, wreck, and nitrox certs along the way. The last is interesting because officially I think that we should have had adventure diver at least before they allowed us to do wreck, but we have the cards.
So, I have two questions:
1. Are we likely to run across operations that won't let us do certain dives because we don't have AOW, and if so, where?
2. Did AOW even exist back in the dark ages (1989), because I don't even recall it being discussed as an option.
Thanks,
And another question:
3. Is having a logbook likely to help?
My wife and I got our OW certification in 1989, and over the next few years we put in about 50 dives in the cold water around Vancouver, BC. We then stopped diving for about 15 years until we decided that we had enough money to try tropical diving. Since then we have put in about 200 dives in Roatan, Cozumel, Bonaire, Chuuk, Palau, Yap, La Paz (Mexico) and the Philippines. We also picked up our PADI drysuit, wreck, and nitrox certs along the way. The last is interesting because officially I think that we should have had adventure diver at least before they allowed us to do wreck, but we have the cards.
So, I have two questions:
1. Are we likely to run across operations that won't let us do certain dives because we don't have AOW, and if so, where?
2. Did AOW even exist back in the dark ages (1989), because I don't even recall it being discussed as an option.
Thanks,
And another question:
3. Is having a logbook likely to help?
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