October 20, 200619 yr QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 09:03 PM) I disagree, as far as which C card you end up with. PADI is more universally recognized than NAUI or NASDS, and a YMCA cert is essentially useless despite the fact that they were the forst organization to offer standardized scuba training as far back as the late 1950s. My first scuba certification training was a Y program through the Chicago park District. Great program, but if you didn't pay the extra $50 at check out time to get simultaneous PADI certification you couldn't find too many places (especially internationally) that would recognize the card. Maybe that's changed in the (insert big crooked number) years since I got certified, but i think PADI is the best route for Americans. Since they standardized the requirements for certification a number of years ago, it is rare that a dive shop will not recognize PADI orNAUI. SSI and NAUI are still battling, but that is more at the instructor level and making it difficult for SSI instructors to gain approval from NAUI. I will stand by my statement that the quality of the instructor will be far more important in continuing to dive then the agency that issues the card.
October 20, 200619 yr QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 19, 2006 -> 11:56 PM) I will stand by my statement that the quality of the instructor will be far more important in continuing to dive then the agency that issues the card. That part I don't disagree with. My Y instructor, a retired cop, was a great instructor. Trying to get on a boat too dive GBR with nothing byt a YMCA cert card would be a difficult task with most opoerators however.
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