What is your highest certification?

Your highest certification

  • OW

    Votes: 8 2.8%
  • AOW

    Votes: 60 21.4%
  • Rescue

    Votes: 67 23.8%
  • MSD (have card, not only meeting requirements)

    Votes: 36 12.8%
  • DM

    Votes: 30 10.7%
  • DM, MSD obtained after

    Votes: 7 2.5%
  • DM, MSD obtained before

    Votes: 17 6.0%
  • Instructor

    Votes: 27 9.6%
  • Instructor, MSD obtained after

    Votes: 8 2.8%
  • Instructor, MSD obtained before

    Votes: 21 7.5%

  • Total voters
    281

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I'm increasingly suspicious of the info under an avatar. Instructor does't mean instructor, Solo doesn't mean solo, 0-24 or uncertified doesn't mean squat Divemaster doesn't mean functioning,
Agree. I haven't been active since 2015. Your avatar can be DM if you just took the course and you wouldn't be lying.
In 1975 I was lucky enough to sub in an orchestra for one concert in Carnegie Hall. I played in ONE of the pieces, but have mentioned that I played in Carnegie Hall to folks. Meant relatively nothing.
 
In your poll, a few options are missing. From my world, I'd like to see:

CMAS 1* (roughly equivalent to PADI OW, fulfils ISO 24801-2)
CMAS 2* (roughly PADI RD "light", valid to 30m)
CMAS 3* (above PADI DM, valid to 56m unless national limitations, and light backgas deco)
BSAC OD (roughly equivalent to PADI OW, fulfils ISO 24801-2)
BSAC SD (roughly PADI DM, valid to 35m)
BSAC DL (roughly PADI DM, valid to 50m)
BSAC AD

Equivalent Diving Qualifications: BSAC, PADI, CMAS, NAUI, etc - SCUBA Travel


I couldn't put down everything, it shorted the Assistant instructor and SSI Dive Con as well, just pick whats close enough. It isn't as if I have a grant riding on this, just putting some rough numbers to another thread.

I cant believe the lack of OW divers, 0 so far.


Bob
 
I couldn't put down everything, it shorted the Assistant instructor and SSI Dive Con as well, just pick whats close enough. It isn't as if I have a grant riding on this, just putting some rough numbers to another thread.

I cant believe the lack of OW divers, 0 so far.


Bob
It’s possibly because you posted the poll in advanced discussions ?
 
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I have an ice diver cert which Is a specialty but AOW is required to take the course so possibly considered a higher cert than AOW?
 
It’s possibly because you posted the poll in advanced discussions ?

I didn't think that would stop OW divers from reading and voting in the poll, but I've been wrong before.


Bob
 
I guess if I took your poll, I’d say instructor with MSD obtained along the way. I don’t however find being an instructor a high level cert. A person can become an instructor very easily...

I find the talk of one very being “higher” or “above” another cert very silly. Being a tech instructor who is CCR advanced Trimix and full cave doesn’t make me somehow elite. It just means I invested a lot of time and money into getting certified and competent to do the dives I want to do.
 

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