Historical equivalencies

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Deep, nitrox, UW photographer, UW naturalist, Fish ID. The instructor on the last deep dive said as far as he was concerned I earned my first boat and salvage dive as well. I was safety diver while he and another instructor salvaged an anchor for a nearby boat - we had to dive out of a very small RIB....overall I already had 71 deep dives, 8 night dives, 147 boat dives though.....
If you were to do just one Navigation dive (there are three in the specialty), you would qualify for AOW. You may want to find an instructor who would do that one dive with you and certify you for AOW.
 
I think you are worrying about nothing.

1. There are lots of smaller agencies - who issue cards that not every operator is familiar with, and no one is preventing those divers from diving. I should know - I have plenty of them!

2. NASDS is still alive in Europe - NASDS | Dive with NASDS

3. It's not that hard to figure out - anyone can look up that ssi purchased nasds, and ssi calls their ai "Dive Control Specialist", and you have "Dive Coordinator".

4. this is the most important one:
I am much more interested in spending my training dollars on new skills

If this is true, and I were you - knowing what I know now - I would take the UTD Essentials of Recreational Diving course, and then consider if I wanted to take Rec 3 after that ...

Essentials of Rec Back Mount · UTD Scuba Diving

I looked through my old NASDS open water book printed in 1995, and reviewed a chart that showed the names of the certification levels, and they were like today OWD, AOW, etc. Professional levels i.e. dc were not mentioned.

cheers
 
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