DaleC
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I am going a little off topic and I hope you guys do not mind... but there has been something that has been bothering me. I am very new to diving and have only logged 10 dives to date since my PADI OW certification in April. My question is, why is there all this negativity towards PADI? The OP opens by saying that he has no love for PADI. Some other threads there have been outright negativity towards PADI. What concerns me is that I plan to take this sport seriously and my next plan is to get AOW.
Where I am, I have limited choice... it is either, get further certification from PADI or not dive deeper, dive wrecks, do night dives or cave dives at all. Should I be concerned about getting my certification with PADI then? Is there something that I do not know of? What other options do I have then?
Where I am... you cannot dive without a certification and I plan to dive Sipadan next.
Sorry for hijacking this thread.
Danny
I am going a little off topic and I hope you guys do not mind... but there has been something that has been bothering me. I am very new to diving and have only logged 10 dives to date since my PADI OW certification in April. My question is, why is there all this negativity towards PADI? The OP opens by saying that he has no love for PADI. Some other threads there have been outright negativity towards PADI. What concerns me is that I plan to take this sport seriously and my next plan is to get AOW.
Where I am, I have limited choice... it is either, get further certification from PADI or not dive deeper, dive wrecks, do night dives or cave dives at all. Should I be concerned about getting my certification with PADI then? Is there something that I do not know of? What other options do I have then?
Where I am... you cannot dive without a certification and I plan to dive Sipadan next.
Sorry for hijacking this thread.
Danny
My question is, why is there all this negativity towards PADI?
Talking to a longtime friend, I found out that he has dove, but is not certified. This friend has dove several times over the years in Florida. He has never had a problem getting an air fill. We have never dove together.
While I have no love for PADI (my cert agency), there are other great cert agencies out there. I made the suggestion to him to get certified, but he brushed it off as not necessary. Doing the type of "fair weather diving" he described, I found it difficult to disagree with his argument about not needing a cert. The "founders" of the sport were not certified, after all. And no, this is not some young kid. We are talking about a guy pushing 60.
The industry polices itself, or does it?
Any thoughts?