Not true, the basic cert allowed you to dive anywhere without supervision so it's not the same as the Scuba Diver cert currently being offered.
Oh ok, so you mean it's like the OW cert of today?
R..
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Not true, the basic cert allowed you to dive anywhere without supervision so it's not the same as the Scuba Diver cert currently being offered.
Recently PADI changed the standard to emphasize neutral buoyancy in a way that was never done before and still isn't by most agencies
When are you talking about? The current PADI PW course has not lost any of the required standards that were in place when I was certified in the last millennium, and it added a number of new requirements several years ago. It is thus more substantial than it has been in my memory. Rob (Diver0001) was certified before I was, and he said it has lost nothing since those days.I don't know the details of course structure, but indeed, today's OW course is less substantial than it used to be.
That was not a normal part of instruction--that was something done by individual instructors on their own. In this History of NAUI, Al Tillman (NAUI Instructor #1) talks about the 1960 Houston meeting of instructors from across the nation that led to the formation of NAUI. He said they were surprised to see some of the instructors doing that sort of thing. He says that they were of the opinion that it was more for the benefit of the instructor (they were having fun doing it) than the student. There are still instructors who still do this today, although it is pretty rare.We had people shut off our air and remove our masks so we had harassment drills in our Basic Scuba class.
YesOh ok, so you mean it's like the OW cert of today?
R..