What Agency Certified You?

What Is Your Most Current Certification Agency.

  • Padi

    Votes: 113 53.1%
  • Naui

    Votes: 39 18.3%
  • SSi

    Votes: 32 15.0%
  • BSAC

    Votes: 3 1.4%
  • YMCA

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • CSMA

    Votes: 4 1.9%
  • SDI

    Votes: 17 8.0%

  • Total voters
    213

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YMCA - Open Water 1991
PADI - all the rest, through 2009 heh
 
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Scottish restaurants. :lotsalove:

How do I get a SEI card? Just kidding, my Y card still works. Actually not sure what other cert I need. I have OW, AOW, and Nitrox.
 
I have a NAVED card too, but it's not a certification.

But nobody knows and they accept it as if it were gold, thus far, lol.

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Nasds, naui, padi
 
DennisW:
How do I get a SEI card?

Your Y cards can be replaced if lost (or even if not lost) with duplicate Y cards or SEI cards. Your brother can help with that.

Nemrod:
But nobody knows and they accept it as if it were gold, thus far, lol.

That's funny! I gotta give it a try. They really don't notice it says right on it that it's not a certification card?
 
Your Y cards can be replaced if lost (or even if not lost) with duplicate Y cards or SEI cards. Your brother can help with that.
That's funny! I gotta give it a try. They really don't notice it says right on it that it's not a certification card?


No they don't most of the time. Every now and then some sharp fellow will freak out on me which I find entertaining but 98% of the time nobody notices. I will not name the shop in the Keys but the owner kept going on with me on the phone long distance that I had to be AOW and a log book and all this and that. She finally just asked me what "card' I had and I told her all of them. Then she wanted to know what is all of them so I asked her if my NAVED Master Diver card would do and she said, uh, yes. When I get down there, hoping to argue with her some more just for sport, she never even asked to see my card. I filled out the waiver and wrote NAVED 112 Master Diver on the blank, she did not bat an eye. If that don't work then I flash them the gold--, never mind.

All this card stuff is a joke, I see master divers get in the water and flail around like they are on fire and trying to put themselves out and barely minted newbies who would make a pro proud to be as smooth.

I cannot make all this up, I got buddied in the Keys with a, well, a person who had attributes of both sexes. No worries because sHe pulled worn out Jet Fins out of the bag so I knew we were good to go and we were. Worn out Jets tell a story, a card mean nothing much of the time.

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Does IANTD Count?
That was my most recent acquisition in 2004.
Prior to that:
YMCA '77
PADI '89,'90,'91,'94
IANTD '03,04

An interesting and somehow great semi worthless poll TomBom.
Chug
 
An interesting and somehow great semi worthless poll TomBom.

I am waiting to see if PADI beats everyone else combined. Last time around they fell just short with around 49.6%. This time they are looking strong on nearly 56%.

It is also an interesting race hotting up for second place...
 
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