I hate that question. I usually answer the same way I answered in my SB profile: I don’t know: does a straight beat a flush?
No. That one's easy.
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I hate that question. I usually answer the same way I answered in my SB profile: I don’t know: does a straight beat a flush?
Except if it is a Straight Flush.No. That one's easy.
Thanks. Makes sense. I have to admit I have no interest in Solo/Self R. as it's not offered here (to my knowledge), and no real other agency knowledge as our shop here is PADI and basically it's all there is here.On the question between rescue and solo, of the 5 agencies with solo like certs:
- SSI: rescue is pre-rec for independent
- SDI and Padi: solo / self reliant have higher cert and much larger dive requirements
- IANTD: deep is pre-req for self-sufficient. Their rescue reads like their OW description...(?)
- CMAS: rescue and how-to-find-my-buddy-or-surface self rescue have the same pre-req, 2 star.
- None have solo as a pre-req for rescue
Incident prevention and self rescue, components of rescue, are fundamental parts of solo diving; done when the third part, buddy-rescue, no longer exists.
Those might move it from 'pretty much unanswerable question' to 'heavily leaning one way'.
Okay, I took 10 seconds and looked for it. Turns out it was NWGratefulDiver's anecdote:
Then there was the guy in Bonaire who insisted I didn't have the proper certification to dive nitrox, because I handed him a Trimix card. I finally had to say "OK, give me trimix then ... just don't put any helium in it".
Full Cave is higher than Open Water Instructor.