What Agency Certified You?

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[drbill]

PADI, NAUI and several others on the list didn't exist when I started diving in 1961 so I went with the best program available in the States... Los Angeles County. When the PADI instructors I encountered while traveling globally had no clue about that card and its history, I decided to get a PADI certification to placate them even though I'd been diving longer than they'd been alive.

 

[Walter]

NAUI has been around since 1960.

 

[Randy43068]

Where is TDI? GUE? UTD?

 

[NEWENGLANDCHARTERS]

Your also missing USN and NASI

 

[BDSC]

NAUI has been around since 1960.

I went and read up on the history of NAUI. Quite interesting really. Folks should take a look. NAUI Worldwide History

Anyway, according to the article, they have actually been around since 1959 but didn't hold their first instructor course until 1960.

 

[Polar_diver]

First certified as OW and AOW by ACUC; then got NAUI specialities and finally now a PADI rescu diver. Does that qualify me as a ''card collector''?

 

[Walter]

Probably not, unless your specialites were boat diver and others similar.

 

[octopuppy]

Does PADI have a Lionfish Culinary specialty? :support: