Certification Level and Specialties

[lars2923]

Nice Job Jeff! Quite a number of accomplishments and dives! in 2 years.
Are you preparing for DM? That would be your next logical step towards
a prefessional career? Keep up the hard work... Dive dive dive...

Cheers,

[jeff98208]

only time will tell if i do the dm or not. for right now i have no plans to do it. but only time will tell. i might do it in the near future though. i'd like to at some point. it'll be nice to add that title under my belt as well

[rubber chicken]

PADI DM
PADI Drysuit
PADI O2 Admin
PADI EAN diver
EFR,
BSAC SD
RYA Advanced Powerboat
RYA Marine VHF
Merchant Marine Sea Survival

187 dives and counting!

Next will be TDI Advanced nitrox and Deco procedures then PADI IDC.

[gangrel441]

Hmmm.....let's see.....

PADI Master Scuba Diver - 2005
PADI Boat Diver (I know....) - 2005
PADI U/W Photographer - 2005
PADI U/W Navigator - 2005
PAID Rescue Diver - 2005
ARC/AHA CPR - Continuous since 2000
ARC/AHA First Aid - Continuous since 2000
AHA AED - 2005
PADI Nitrox Diver - 2004
REEF Fish ID - 2003
REEF Creature ID - 2003
PADI AOW - 2001
NAUI Scuba Diver - 2001
SSI OW - 1987

Looking forward....
PADI Divemaster - Summer 2007?

Cards are cards. The only training above that I thought wasn't very useful was Boat, and it was a freebie. Even at that, the wife gained some training in tying knots during the boat class. I was just reviewing stuff I already knew, so I guess it wasn't completely useless.

[deep flight]

just remember , boys and girls

You can buy the gear, you can buy the cards and if you kiss the right ass, you can buy the boat ride but you can never buy experience.

AMEN TO THAT!!

you can add undewater wisdom to that line . .

PDIC Instructor Trainer
TDI NITROX instructor/deco/extended range . . trimix by mid this year . . hopefully . . Limited viz/night/nav/deep/medic-first aid/CPROX/rescue/Dive Supervisor. .blah blah . . and unofficially, wreck (trained, but didn't get the c-card). .

number of logs? dunno. . .stopped logging at a thousand dives back in 2000. but that would include my training dives. yep. i log my training dives. that way i remember who did what as well as track underwater behavior of students for future reference. that's the only thing i log nowadays. call me a control freak . . am proud of it!

to the newbies, log your dives. i wish i didn't stop logging them. now it's hard to start again . .

[deep flight]

i'm guessing ur pinoy?

[Diverdaniel]

umm,

SSI DiveCon Instructor
SSI Rescue Instructor
React Right forst aid (undergoing instructor course)
Wreck diving
navigation
night/limited vis
SSI eanx instr
DPV diver
underwater naturalist
u/w scientific diving instructor
ANDI SafeAir Instructor
ANDI Technical safeair diver+ERD
IANTD Technical+normoxic-tir-mix +Trimix tech diver
undergoing aprentiship for IANTD advanced EANx instructor
search and recovery diver Israeli police force volenteer
search and recovery instructor
computer specialty instr
drysuit diver
u/w photography
deep diving specialty instructor
Israeli Star of David O2 provider
Dep diving afety officer at institute for marine science Eilat Israel
close to 3000 dives


thats it i think.

i fully agree with you gobfish1
unfortunately one sees people with lots of money and no experiance.

i have been in the diving induistry for 8 years
i have had the displeasure to have seen IT's "made" in 3 years

[jbailz32]

Padi O.W.
Padi A.O.W.
working on nitrox.

Im kinda new to diving. Got my first cert. 6 months ago. Only 22 dives...But, I got my eye on lars2923's list!!

[diverdown5572]

Hi divers, well I am not going to go head to head with the list of cert cards here, but a little about me and my diving style.
I have over 1000 dives life time and dive from 25 ft shore and river dives to cavern, and off shore wrecks
I dive single AL80 up to CCR.
Now the controversial part, my CCR is of my own design.
I work in the compressed air industry in new product development and with breathing air system design for over 20 years.
So before you go off saying this guy is nuts and will kill himself on a self built Rebreather, I have the back ground to design and build what I fell are better than commercial units.
I do not expect you to agree with my above statement as for I am only one man with one mans opinion, but its mine, and my safety is also mine as well.
What I have done is taken all the data that I have researched on commercial made CCRs and make every attempt to design out the known flaws of each unit to make an even better CCR.
OK by now you are most likely saying man this guy has a big head and is probably complacent, well that is not the case and that is what will get you killed.
Sure I have a stack of c cards, spent good money just to go through the motions and get the next c card, but I agree with =
Just like quoted before in prior post there is no replacement for experience.
You are responsible for your own safety.
This is my dive style.

[Sarah]

Every good rebreather was designed by one guy......don't be so hard on yourself....Dave Sutton designed the Inspiration rebreather, and look where it is now!