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I am going to see about the Underwater Sports because this is where I usually go to fill my tanks, but does anybody have any recent recommendations or thoughts?
TIA!
Maria
Thank you Doug! Those are "the GUE people", right? I made up my mind to take the Fundamentals course myself, but that's a different topic all together. For my step daughter I am only looking for PADI. It is what her parents want IMO because she already started with it, also this is the most recognizable agency around the world, and our family likes to travel.orcasc205 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 5:27 pm If you are willing to use a NAUI shop instead of PADI, I would talk to Andrea at 8 Diving in Des Moines. Their training is very reasonably priced and their instructors are excellent, going beyond the required materials to really emphasize safe and fun diving in our cold waters.
As other have mentioned, for recreational diving the agency on the card means absolutely nothing PADI, NAUI, SSI, SDI, RAID, BASC, YMCA - They all have basically the same standards and all of their cards are interchangeable. So you could take Open Water with PADI, Advanced Open Water with SSI and Rescue with NAUI and every dive shop in the world will accept your credentials (except for the French, which accept none of the above, but hey they're FrenchMariaT wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2019 2:28 pm Hi everyone! My teenage stepdaughter has OW from PADI. She is an awesome buddy, but we have to stay above 60ftNow that she is old enough to obtain a Deep Diver certification I am looking for some place around here that provides good training for a reasonable price (duh)
I am going to see about the Underwater Sports because this is where I usually go to fill my tanks, but does anybody have any recent recommendations or thoughts?
TIA!
Maria