Picture for certification card

[purbeast]

The instructor (or shop) prepays for the certification card by purchasing a paper PIC to mail in, or an eCard PIC. Only a shop/instructor can upload an electronic verification, not a customer. If you have a paper PIC, then that is the paid paperwork and you just complete and submit the form.

Thanks for clarifying. Yeah I already paid my cert fees so I guess I just have to go the physical route.

 

[happy-diver]

Use someone else's head and shoulders and see if anyone notices

perhaps they'll notice the shoulders

 

[TMHeimer]

The Project Aware cert. card cost $5 in 2007 when I didn't get it. Now it's $10, so I guess inflation has doubled since then.....

 

[TheRealScubaSteve]

The shop I got certified at took a camera from the dive shop, stood me against a white wall and took my picture. Looked like crap. Probably didn't meet the guidelines. I'm pretty sure PADI just went, "Cheque cleared, picture looks fine to me."

Mine was on a boat with a nice view in the background.

 

[maj2]

For my OW, I had to supply a pic. Went to a booth at the mall for that one, if I recall correctly.

By the time I did AOW, things were more online, and my LDS took the photo and just resuses the photo that they have on file. Once in a while they ask if I want to update the photo. The only time I bothered getting a new one was after I had LASIK surgery and have the photo without my glasses for any subsequent cards.

Not sure anyone ever looks at the photo anyway... When my daughter was 8 years old, she did PADI's Seal Team program, and that involves a card. The shop erred on that one, and attached my photo instead. PADI mailed out a Seal Team card for an eight year old girl with a photo of a 40-something year old man on it.I eventually got corrected, but we still have the first card...

 

[tursiops]

Not sure anyone ever looks at the photo anyway... When my daughter was 8 years old, she did PADI's Seal Team program, and that involves a card. The shop erred on that one, and attached my photo instead. PADI mailed out a Seal Team card for an eight year old girl with a photo of a 40-something year old man on it.I eventually got corrected, but we still have the first card...

That's a great story!

 

[Seaweed Doc]

I have a card that I got in 1986 and the picture doesn't look anything like me (unlike my avatar). Someone actually looked at it and couldn't believe it was me. I keep it for sentimental reasons.

Cheers -

Awesome! I've got my original 1985 c-card for similar reasons. I showed my boss the picture on it and once he stopped laughing he said I looked like I was 12.....

For the record, I was 19.

And 37 when I showed the boss.

At 52, I look more like your avatar than either the 19 or 37 year old me....

 

[Steve_C]

Just checked the card in my wallet. Head and a bit of my shoulders. Essentially the full head and a small margin around it that picks up part of the shoulders near my neck. Think it may be a passport photo. Not sure.

 

[agilis]

I sometimes use a C card of mine that dates back to 1972. The picture is of a much younger me from nearly a half century ago. I like to see the reaction I get. It has never been refused.

 

[JackD342]

That's a great story!

I bet somewhere, somewhen, PADI knowingly issued such a card when a parent didn't want their minor child's image documented with their name.