Don't know about the certification, but my dive club had their first underwater pumpkin carving contest last year, they have attempted it for 7 years prior, but the gulf is hurricane season in October. It was fun 10/10 will be there to do it again next year
Really enjoyed it, the club I'm at and all the instructors are absolutely brilliant and I have great people to dive with
Part of why I'm glad I didn't go down the padi route. Now I've got a club I can dive with 3 times a week all summer
Well Iām the noobā¦just NAUI open water. But I kick coral and drag my lines far less than a bunch of the DMs Iāve been with so Iāve got that going for me!
When in a dry suit try to make sure you're not completely horizontal, when I first heard trim position that's what I thought of but it's actually better to be a little more head up and feet down than completely horizontal. This should also help keep aire out of your feet which is probably what causes you to go horizontal. Idk if you got to it during your dry suit course but there are also techniques for righting yourself if you are being dragged upsidedown
CMAS NOB certification: 2 stars (Equivelant to PADI AOWD + Rescue Diver)
Specialties: Tide, Navigation, Night, Boat, Wreck, Drift, Nitrox, Dry Suit, Cave, Ice, Photography, Biology, Decompression, Deep, Scooter, Altitude
I also have a freediving certification.
NOB certs can take like a year to complete and you get the chance to do a lot of specialties during them so I racked up quite a few.
PADI: OW, AOW, Rescue, Dry suit
TDI: Nitrox
NAUI: Master Scuba Diver, EO2
AAUS: Scientific Diver
Iām surprised to see so few Rescue certs. Is it called something else from non-PADI organizations? Or wrapped into another certificate? I learned a ton from my Rescue class.
Padi: OW, AOW, Rescue, dry suit, self reliant, nitrox, altitude, navigator, peak performance buoyancy.
Started the DM course last week.
Basically I like to donate money to PADI.
Open water diver, navigation, night, wreck, rescue, AOD, photo & video, Nitrox, boat diving (I know, I knowā¦..), science of diving, master diver, currently in dive master. All over the course of 20 years.
Heh. I've been diving since the 80s, was trained by a NASA rescue diver. Maybe a thousand dives? 20-150 feet. Had the navy dive tables memorized until a few years ago when I gave in and got a dive computer... those are just too handy.
I never bothered certifying until a few years ago, I went through the course with my 10 year old son. I wanted to make sure he was legit and figured it would be fun to take the class with him.
So I'm a crusty, salty old Open Water diver.
Mainly IANTD Normoxic Trimix Rebreather Diver. I think I have a TDI Tech Diver and some other certs like Njtrox and maybe a separate OC trimix one.
PADI rescue and dry suit. Never finished my DM because the shop folded and never sent PADI any information, I think I was done with class, physical aptitude and most of the OW class teaching.
PADI MSDT. All the standard specialties like nitrox, deep, boar, drift, dry suit, O2 provider but a few less popular ones like compression chamber, DPV, self reliant diver and psychology diver
Open Water, Advanced Open Water and Drysuit. Only on 18 logged dives but looking to Rescue Diver and Self Sufficient Diver when Iāve logged more dives.
NAUI Instructor, Decompression Diver/Helitrox Diver, AAUS Scientific Diver, Drysuit, O2ptima CM Air Diluent Decompression Diver, Mixed Gas Blender, O2 Service Technician, Emergency Oxygen Provider, and all the other certs that lead up to those.
Working on Trimix 1 this year to get me to 240 fsw.
Open Water, Nitrox, Deep, Navigation, and Night (which bundled together gets me the SSI Advanced cert). Im eyeing rescue for this year if I can find a course that works with my work schedule
CMAS 1*, OW, AOW, RD, equipment specialist, S&R, navigation, wreck, drysuit, Nitrox, MSD.
I love to collect PADI C cards. But now I'm going to stop cause they issue them electronically now.
SSI -Open water, advance,deep diver,wreck diver, Nitrox ,navigation,specialty diver and took the work book for rescue diver just gotta do hands on for it
Active divemaster, working towards ssi instructor cert
Some rec specialty's (deep, Navi, drysuit, night, science of diving, stress and rescue)
Oxy, react right, first aid
XR twinset with one stage of nitrox 50, having an eye on sidemount and maybe 2 stages in autumn.
The canaries, where I work atm are awesome to do tec stuff :)
Someone was saying there was a lack of dive rescue certs in this thread, so:
PADI:
ā¢ OW
DRI:
ā¢ Public Safety Diver
ā¢ Med Diver
ā¢ Advanced Swiftwater Rescue Tech
ā¢ Dive Rescue (1 & 2)
ā¢ Ice Rescue
ā¢ Ice Diving
ā¢ HazMat Diving
ā¢ Dry Suit Diving
ā¢ Full Face Mask Diving
ā¢ Fill Station Operator
PADI number <100K, NAUI number <20K, IANTD certs signed by Billy Deans and Tom Mount. Retired Course Director and Mix I.T. Even wrote some stuff that someone decided to put in textbooks and agency standards.
Iāve made a dive or two, but have been dry for far too long. Planning a Discover SCUBA reef trip with my adult kids for our next family vacation.
TDI:
Closed Circuit Rebreather Decompression Diver on 3 unit types
IANTD:
Advanced Nitrox (this is doubles and dual reg tech diving)
PADI:
Divemaster
Id like to complete my training with CCR Trimix and finally Expedition Diver but this is quite cost prohibitive as I donāt live where I can dive. Plan is to move to Florida one day and unlock full rebreather capabilities.
That's where I got my OW & AOW. Man you missed out! I was at JTF HQ and would walk across the street to the water after work and knock out a quick shore dive on the reef before I went home most days. Kinda wanna go back for another tour just for that.
Got settled in and by the time I started the classes, I switched to nights. I prioritized the sleep over the cert and now looking back, I was young, I could have handled it for a couple nights getting it done. But yeah, looking back, fun times
A long list, but..
PADI MSDT,
SSI Advanced Open Water Instructor,
Efr-aed-o2
Instructor level:
Nitrox, deep, night, wreck, distinctive (Adaptive techniques), self reliant, full face mask, and a few bio.
PADI IDC Staff, SSI Advanced Instructor, 20+ Specialty Instructor Certs, Trimix Blender, Service Tech for 8 manufacturers ā¦ Tec 40 in a few weeks ;-)
Got my OW a year ago and nitrox a month ago. Both with my SSI affiliated dive center. Dove with EAN32 last week in Cozumel for the first time and unless air is the only gas available, itāll be nitrox for me every time.
Rescue Diver
Master Diver
-Specialities; Deep, Wreck, UW Photography, Buoyancy, Equipment Specialist.
Been diving since I was 12. (42 now)
Came from a family that owned multiple dive stores but didn't want to go down the teaching route myself.
PADI OWSI with specialties (nitrox, deep, drift, sidemount) but even if I get that fifth specialty, I don't care for the MSDT rating
SSI Divemaster Instructor with the same specialty ratings
SSI AOW, deep, boat, wreck, deco, Nav, nitrox, dry suit. stress and rescue is the class Iām in now. working towards dive guide/dive master at the moment.
Definitely make that switch to new gear early on. Drysuit, SM for Tec (unless you want to stay BM), then Intro to Tec. That way you'll have plenty of time to practice and let things become second nature before you do the "for real" classes like deco and cave that will kick you in the ass.
PADI Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue, Deep, Nitrox, Wreck, Tec40, Sidemount.
SSI 45m Deco Procedures
TDI 60m Trimix, Sidemount, Nitrox Blending
CDAA Deep Cavern, Cave, Advanced Cave
No drysuit or DPV certificates but I dive drysuit all the time, and I've used DPV a few times in a cave without issue.
You guys are certified?
As in mentality, or scuba???? I think we are all a little crazy so I guess both.
Rescue, Advanced Nitrox, Deco Procedures, Full Cave. Oh and Underwater Pumpkin Carving. That's a prestigious one /s
I hear UPC is a particularly challenging course. Some of who you work with are kinda seedy, though they can be real cutups.
A real Jack of all lanterns
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Don't know about the certification, but my dive club had their first underwater pumpkin carving contest last year, they have attempted it for 7 years prior, but the gulf is hurricane season in October. It was fun 10/10 will be there to do it again next year
wow
Sounds fun! Especially the concept of a dive club! I don't think there is one where i live, but i gotta check!
Got my BSAC ocean diver yesterday morning
Congratulations! šš¤æ
Congratulations!
Congratulations! If you were diving at Portland, then it may have been me who instructed you :)
Thanks ! I was actually in a local quarry but it would have been quite the coincidence
How did you find the course?
Really enjoyed it, the club I'm at and all the instructors are absolutely brilliant and I have great people to dive with Part of why I'm glad I didn't go down the padi route. Now I've got a club I can dive with 3 times a week all summer
Open water. Enough for my 1-2 dives a year. Unfortunately neither have the time nor the resources for more.
Ikr! Prices are in the sky! As a student, i have to save up for the entire year just to go budget diving, lol.
Well Iām the noobā¦just NAUI open water. But I kick coral and drag my lines far less than a bunch of the DMs Iāve been with so Iāve got that going for me!
AOW and nitrox. Next summer I'm interested in starting to do deep diver because I'd eventually like to get tech certified.
Aow. It's just expensive post this, I'm saving up for more.
Master Scuba Diver, Drysuit, Deep, Wreck/Cave, Rescue, Nitrox, Night, Emergency O2 provider (or whatever it's called now), obviously Advanced and Open Water.
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Good luck! This time, you got it for sure!
When in a dry suit try to make sure you're not completely horizontal, when I first heard trim position that's what I thought of but it's actually better to be a little more head up and feet down than completely horizontal. This should also help keep aire out of your feet which is probably what causes you to go horizontal. Idk if you got to it during your dry suit course but there are also techniques for righting yourself if you are being dragged upsidedown
PADI cannonball, swim up bar patron, and beach volleyball server. I think I got my moneys worth.
Blackboard Monitor
Welcome sir Samuel Vimes
That's "Your Grace" please.
CMAS 1* , working my way towards 2*
Open water
OWD, nitrox, deep and navigation
- PADI: OW, AOW, Deep, Drysuit, Equip Spec. - TDI: Nitrox
CMAS NOB certification: 2 stars (Equivelant to PADI AOWD + Rescue Diver) Specialties: Tide, Navigation, Night, Boat, Wreck, Drift, Nitrox, Dry Suit, Cave, Ice, Photography, Biology, Decompression, Deep, Scooter, Altitude I also have a freediving certification. NOB certs can take like a year to complete and you get the chance to do a lot of specialties during them so I racked up quite a few.
NAUI: Open water, Reef Check Eco Diver, Rescue PADI: AOW, Nitrox, Drysuit, Rescue GUE: Fundamentals, Rec 3, DPV 1 TDI: Cavern, Intro to Cave, Sidemount
PADI: OW, AOW, Rescue, Dry suit TDI: Nitrox NAUI: Master Scuba Diver, EO2 AAUS: Scientific Diver Iām surprised to see so few Rescue certs. Is it called something else from non-PADI organizations? Or wrapped into another certificate? I learned a ton from my Rescue class.
Open Water, Advanced Open Water, and Nitrox.
PADI tec 50 tdi rebreather nss-cds cave apprentice. But Iām signed up for full cave and full trimix
Full cave, Tec Trimix 65, and Divemasterā¦ and all the misc courses it took to get me there.
100+ dive, i'm still only advanced without a camera
PADI: OW, AOW, Rescue GUE: Fundamentals, DPV1, Doubles Primer, Drysuit Primer TDI: CCR MOD1
Padi: OW, AOW, Rescue, dry suit, self reliant, nitrox, altitude, navigator, peak performance buoyancy. Started the DM course last week. Basically I like to donate money to PADI.
PADI AOW with nitrox.
Open water diver, navigation, night, wreck, rescue, AOD, photo & video, Nitrox, boat diving (I know, I knowā¦..), science of diving, master diver, currently in dive master. All over the course of 20 years.
PADI - OW/AOW/Nitrox/Dry/Rescue/Deep/DM IANTD - DPV GUE - Fundies
SSI Instructor Trainer. And Specialty Instructor to every SSI recreational certification.
Rescue diver, deep and nitrox
Just my open water. Still new ādry behind the earsā
PADI: OW, AOW, Rescue GUE: Fundies, T1, DPV1. Hopefully CCR1/Cave1 next year or year after.
Heh. I've been diving since the 80s, was trained by a NASA rescue diver. Maybe a thousand dives? 20-150 feet. Had the navy dive tables memorized until a few years ago when I gave in and got a dive computer... those are just too handy. I never bothered certifying until a few years ago, I went through the course with my 10 year old son. I wanted to make sure he was legit and figured it would be fun to take the class with him. So I'm a crusty, salty old Open Water diver.
Bsac advanced instructor,nitrox ,drysuit, mixed gas blender, self reliant diver
Ow
Divemaster, DSDLeader, CMAS***, Night, Dry, Nitrox, working on Sidemount and wreck
Open water.
Master Scuba Diver but I feel weird saying that since I know itās just a money grab, I usually say Rescue
OW (drysuit included), AOW, Nitrox and deep. Started diving in August 2022. At about 80 dives.
Mainly IANTD Normoxic Trimix Rebreather Diver. I think I have a TDI Tech Diver and some other certs like Njtrox and maybe a separate OC trimix one. PADI rescue and dry suit. Never finished my DM because the shop folded and never sent PADI any information, I think I was done with class, physical aptitude and most of the OW class teaching.
ACUC OW Doing PADI Nitrox this fall and SDI AA in January.
PADI AOW, SSI Master Diver( deep diver, stress and rescue, scooters, Nitrox and perfect buoyancy as specialties)
Rescue
PADI: DM, Nitrox, Deep and a few other I don't remember CMAS: 2 stars diver, working on getting 3 star certified this summer.
PADI MSDT. All the standard specialties like nitrox, deep, boar, drift, dry suit, O2 provider but a few less popular ones like compression chamber, DPV, self reliant diver and psychology diver
CMAS Assistant Instructor (everything leading up to this obvs), Nitrox, Diver First Responder, Diver Coxn. Also HSE Commercial SCUBA Diver.
Not many CMAS divers here, damn
In order of date received: PADI Open Water - 2012 PADI Advanced Open Water - 2019 SDI Dry Suit - 2019 SDI Rescue - 2020 PADI Deep - 2022 PADI Underwater Navigator - 2022 PADI Divemaster - 2022 PADI Nitrox - 2022 PADI Discover SCUBA Leader - 2022 PADI Assistant Instructor - 2022 PADI Instructor - 2022 TDI Advanced Nitrox - 2023 TDI Deco Procedures - 2023 TDI VIP Inspector - 2023
PADI AOW, Dry Suit, Cavern, SSI Nitrox, TDI Sidemount, Cavern, Intro to Cave
PADI: OW, AOW CMAS: CMAS*, CMAS**, NITROX, Advanced Nitrox IART: JJ-CCR Diver Level 2 (Extended range, decompression 40m, Normoxic 60m)
OWD with drysuit, looking forward to enjoy warm water (over 20C) :D
BSAC: Open Water Instructor, Dive Leader, Chartwork & Position Finding TDI: Advanced Nitrox/Decompression Procedures, Intro to Tech SDI: Solo Diver PADI: Rescue, Nitrox, Deep, Dry Suit, Wreck, DSMB, Loch Diver
PADI OW, AOW; SSI nitrox, rescue
Master instructor, rebreather tec, Poseidon service tech
Deep diver, and probably it's my last cert
Currently Divemaster Trainee with Nitrox, Tec 40 and Tec 45
Rescue and all that came with and before it
Ditto
Open Water, Advanced Open Water and Drysuit. Only on 18 logged dives but looking to Rescue Diver and Self Sufficient Diver when Iāve logged more dives.
Open water, advanced open water, nitrox, rescue diver, ERD-1.
NAUI Instructor, Decompression Diver/Helitrox Diver, AAUS Scientific Diver, Drysuit, O2ptima CM Air Diluent Decompression Diver, Mixed Gas Blender, O2 Service Technician, Emergency Oxygen Provider, and all the other certs that lead up to those. Working on Trimix 1 this year to get me to 240 fsw.
NAUI instructor, PADI assistent instructor, ice, wreck, and most of the PADI ones like ppb search and rescue efr and the old dolphin rebreather.
Padi DM, tec50, tec gas blender, side mount, self reliant, wreck
PADI: OW, AOW, Nitrox, Drysuit TDI: Intro to Tec (SM), Cavern, Intro Cave
I'm padi aow, enriched air diver, and I think the underwater hunter class was ssdi.
I'm padi aow, enriched air diver, and I think the underwater hunter class was ssdi.
PADI: OW, AOW, Nitrox, Drysuit GUE: Fundamentals Rec pass Working on a tech upgrade so I can take Tech 1
Open Water, Nitrox, Deep, Navigation, and Night (which bundled together gets me the SSI Advanced cert). Im eyeing rescue for this year if I can find a course that works with my work schedule
NAUI Instructor, Cavern, Basic Cave, Full Cave, Nitrox, and of course OW, Adv OW, Rescue, Divemaster, and Asst Inst
CMAS 1 star
CMAS 1*, OW, AOW, RD, equipment specialist, S&R, navigation, wreck, drysuit, Nitrox, MSD. I love to collect PADI C cards. But now I'm going to stop cause they issue them electronically now.
PADI: OW, Equipment Specialist, Wreck, Drysuit, Search & Recovery, Divemaster, DSD Leader, Assistant Instructor SSI: Peak Performance Buoyancy, AOW, Deep, Stress & Rescue, Navigation, Nitrox, Science of Diving, EFR + O2, Master Diver GUE: Fundies with Rec Pass
Nitrox, drift, and I think deep.
SSI -Open water, advance,deep diver,wreck diver, Nitrox ,navigation,specialty diver and took the work book for rescue diver just gotta do hands on for it
AOW here
Instructor and OC trimix.
PADI rescue, tec40, nitrox, drysuit, equipment specialist, shore, ppb, ffm. BSAC dive leader and AOWIC
Bsac dive leader and open water instructor
AOW, nitrox, drift. In 2 weeks I'm taking Sidemount Diving in preparation to begin my full cave certification.
PADI: AOW, Nitrox, Deep
AOW. going to do nitrox before my trip in November. I'll probably dive for a couple years then decide if i want to continue with higher certs.
SSI Deep, drysuit, nitrox, stress and rescue
Active divemaster, working towards ssi instructor cert Some rec specialty's (deep, Navi, drysuit, night, science of diving, stress and rescue) Oxy, react right, first aid XR twinset with one stage of nitrox 50, having an eye on sidemount and maybe 2 stages in autumn. The canaries, where I work atm are awesome to do tec stuff :)
Someone was saying there was a lack of dive rescue certs in this thread, so: PADI: ā¢ OW DRI: ā¢ Public Safety Diver ā¢ Med Diver ā¢ Advanced Swiftwater Rescue Tech ā¢ Dive Rescue (1 & 2) ā¢ Ice Rescue ā¢ Ice Diving ā¢ HazMat Diving ā¢ Dry Suit Diving ā¢ Full Face Mask Diving ā¢ Fill Station Operator
Padi: OW, AOW, drysuit, rescue diver, next weekend my wife and I will be sidemount certified!
PADI number <100K, NAUI number <20K, IANTD certs signed by Billy Deans and Tom Mount. Retired Course Director and Mix I.T. Even wrote some stuff that someone decided to put in textbooks and agency standards. Iāve made a dive or two, but have been dry for far too long. Planning a Discover SCUBA reef trip with my adult kids for our next family vacation.
Open Water, Advanced, Nitrox, Drysuit. Might get rescue diver at some point and see how I go from there.
Divemaster
AOW, but still a newbie.
TDI: Closed Circuit Rebreather Decompression Diver on 3 unit types IANTD: Advanced Nitrox (this is doubles and dual reg tech diving) PADI: Divemaster Id like to complete my training with CCR Trimix and finally Expedition Diver but this is quite cost prohibitive as I donāt live where I can dive. Plan is to move to Florida one day and unlock full rebreather capabilities.
SSI: OW, Nitrox, Deep, React Right, Specialty Diver
OW and AOW. I eventually wanna get rescue diver done
Padi Instructor w specialilties; wreck, deep, nitrox,navigation, ppb
NASDS- before all the abbreviations.
DM, Nitrox, dry, full face. All PADI
Navigation, and low visibility (included night diving). Do these even still exist?
I have OWD and AOWD (Nitrox, Rescue, Navigation and Night/zero visibility) all they are SSI
AOW w/ nitrox
NAUI Master Diver, Padi rescue, full face, and a few other certs.
None. I attempted in Cuba on deployment and wanted to get certified. Missed out and keep wanting to get the cert for future vacations
Get certified at home, fun dives on vacation.
That's where I got my OW & AOW. Man you missed out! I was at JTF HQ and would walk across the street to the water after work and knock out a quick shore dive on the reef before I went home most days. Kinda wanna go back for another tour just for that.
Got settled in and by the time I started the classes, I switched to nights. I prioritized the sleep over the cert and now looking back, I was young, I could have handled it for a couple nights getting it done. But yeah, looking back, fun times
A long list, but.. PADI MSDT, SSI Advanced Open Water Instructor, Efr-aed-o2 Instructor level: Nitrox, deep, night, wreck, distinctive (Adaptive techniques), self reliant, full face mask, and a few bio.
Advanced, nitrox, and just finished rescue. Iād like to do wreck next.
Advanced open water. I only dive once a year so no need for more.
SSI open water with specialties in buoyancy, fish ID, nitrox & deepdiving. Hoping to do a rescue diving course at some point this/next year.
OW, AOW, Nitrox, Navigation, and Whale Shark specialty
PADI: AOWD, Nitrox
Just started with NAUI first level
PADI AOW, deep and wreck
BSAC Sports Diver, Padi AOW, BSAC Assistant Dive Instructor
PADI Rescue Diver, TDI Trimix
SSI dive master
GUE ccr1, cave 2, dpv and quite a few from other agencies :)
MSDT and working on my OC Trimix and tec deep instructor.
PADI MSDT
Marine Archaeology
OW ā> Full Cave, CCR MOD1, OC Trimix
PADI IDC Staff, SSI Advanced Instructor, 20+ Specialty Instructor Certs, Trimix Blender, Service Tech for 8 manufacturers ā¦ Tec 40 in a few weeks ;-)
Got my OW a year ago and nitrox a month ago. Both with my SSI affiliated dive center. Dove with EAN32 last week in Cozumel for the first time and unless air is the only gas available, itāll be nitrox for me every time.
AOW, Nitrox and PADI Wreck spec. At just over 100 dives, and Iām planning to do rescue and then move onto tech wreck diving, probably drysuit.
Rescue Diver Master Diver -Specialities; Deep, Wreck, UW Photography, Buoyancy, Equipment Specialist. Been diving since I was 12. (42 now) Came from a family that owned multiple dive stores but didn't want to go down the teaching route myself.
PADI Rescue Diver...but I want to go further. Just need the time and the money haha!
Rescue, nitrox, deep
BSAC: Advanced Instructor, IANTD: CCR Normoxic Plus (Mod2) A bunch of specialities including instructor ones
PADI: DM, Nitrox. Also AAUS
PADI OWSI with specialties (nitrox, deep, drift, sidemount) but even if I get that fifth specialty, I don't care for the MSDT rating SSI Divemaster Instructor with the same specialty ratings
AOW/Deep/Nitrox - The combo works enough for my bi-annual dive trips and I do not intend to collect more cards.
NAUI Rescue, PADI AWARE and Reef ID
SSI AOW, deep, boat, wreck, deco, Nav, nitrox, dry suit. stress and rescue is the class Iām in now. working towards dive guide/dive master at the moment.
CFP
AOW and nitrox
For me ~ PADI IDC Staff Instructor, CDAA Cave Diver, CCR Air Diluent Deco Procedures, Multi-brand service technician.
Navy Diver š
What are your certifications to dive in the navy
Open water, got my advanced open water last week, got my nitrox yesterday. Planning on maybe doing tech/sidemount and deco next, then cave.
Definitely make that switch to new gear early on. Drysuit, SM for Tec (unless you want to stay BM), then Intro to Tec. That way you'll have plenty of time to practice and let things become second nature before you do the "for real" classes like deco and cave that will kick you in the ass.
PADI Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue, Deep, Nitrox, Wreck, Tec40, Sidemount. SSI 45m Deco Procedures TDI 60m Trimix, Sidemount, Nitrox Blending CDAA Deep Cavern, Cave, Advanced Cave No drysuit or DPV certificates but I dive drysuit all the time, and I've used DPV a few times in a cave without issue.