PADI Advanced OW course material

My wife and I are hoping to do our advanced OW in Sharm in 3 weeks, we did
our OW there this June.

I realise that I need the "Advanced adventures in diving" for the course but
do we need one each? do you have to complete any knowledge reviews like for
an OW course. If so I suppose I could just photocopy them?

I'm already a bit P*ssed that we'll have to pay another 2 certification
fee's (seeing that we've only had our OW cards since June but never used
them!) so didn't really want to have to buy another 2 diving manuals as
well.

Regards
Paul.

"paulj48" <paulj48at0tmail.c0m> wrote ...

> I'm already a bit P*ssed that we'll have to pay another 2 certification
> fee's (seeing that we've only had our OW cards since June but never used
> them!) so didn't really want to have to buy another 2 diving manuals as
> well.

Welcome to PADI Sorry Paul, that's the way that it works. I believe that
the shops buy complete "crew packs" that contain everything for the said
course, they can't just split a pack.

Keith L

Yes you need to fill out the knowledge reviews for you and your girlfriend
you can normally get the Adventures in diving manual of Ebay.
Happy Diving


"paulj48" <paulj48at0tmail.c0m> wrote in message
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> My wife and I are hoping to do our advanced OW in Sharm in 3 weeks, we did
> our OW there this June.
>
> I realise that I need the "Advanced adventures in diving" for the course
but
> do we need one each? do you have to complete any knowledge reviews like
for
> an OW course. If so I suppose I could just photocopy them?
>
> I'm already a bit P*ssed that we'll have to pay another 2 certification
> fee's (seeing that we've only had our OW cards since June but never used
> them!) so didn't really want to have to buy another 2 diving manuals as
> well.
>
> Regards
> Paul.
>
>

"paulj48" <paulj48at0tmail.c0m> wrote in message
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> My wife and I are hoping to do our advanced OW in Sharm in 3 weeks, we did
> our OW there this June.
>
> I realise that I need the "Advanced adventures in diving" for the course
> but
> do we need one each? do you have to complete any knowledge reviews like
> for
> an OW course. If so I suppose I could just photocopy them?

Yes, there are knowledge reviews which need to be completed but I'm sure
that whatever diving centre you train with will be happy to accept
photocopies. Some however, won't so check first!

> I'm already a bit P*ssed that we'll have to pay another 2 certification
> fee's (seeing that we've only had our OW cards since June but never used
> them!) so didn't really want to have to buy another 2 diving manuals as
> well.

Unbelievable! It's hardly PADI's fault that you haven't been diving since
June, now is it?! And anyway, don't forget that you get an additional
certification card for every course you do - that's the whole point of the
certification fee! You don't get your old OW card 'upgraded', you know.

Personally your 'pikey' attitude to this just amazes me - you want
additional training but you seem unwilling to pay for it. I'm a strong
believer that you get out of training what you put in - you cut corners and
do everything 'on the cheap' and the quality of what you get out of the
course will reflect this. Ultimately you're just cheating yourself...

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:14:39 +0100, "paulj48" <paulj48at0tmail.c0m>
wrote:

>My wife and I are hoping to do our advanced OW in Sharm in 3 weeks, we did
>our OW there this June.
>
>I realise that I need the "Advanced adventures in diving" for the course but
>do we need one each? do you have to complete any knowledge reviews like for
>an OW course. If so I suppose I could just photocopy them?
>
>I'm already a bit P*ssed that we'll have to pay another 2 certification
>fee's (seeing that we've only had our OW cards since June but never used
>them!) so didn't really want to have to buy another 2 diving manuals as
>well.

Diving costs, get over it!


Laz

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> Unbelievable! It's hardly PADI's fault that you haven't been diving since
> June, now is it?! And anyway, don't forget that you get an additional
> certification card for every course you do - that's the whole point of the
> certification fee! You don't get your old OW card 'upgraded', you know.
>
> Personally your 'pikey' attitude to this just amazes me - you want
> additional training but you seem unwilling to pay for it. I'm a strong
> believer that you get out of training what you put in - you cut corners and
> do everything 'on the cheap' and the quality of what you get out of the
> course will reflect this.

Well said

> > Unbelievable! It's hardly PADI's fault that you haven't been diving
since
> > June, now is it?! And anyway, don't forget that you get an additional
> > certification card for every course you do - that's the whole point of
the
> > certification fee! You don't get your old OW card 'upgraded', you know.#

No I didnt know that, but from your sarcastic reply I do now.

> > Personally your 'pikey' attitude to this just amazes me - you want
> > additional training but you seem unwilling to pay for it. I'm a strong
> > believer that you get out of training what you put in - you cut corners
and
> > do everything 'on the cheap' and the quality of what you get out of the
> > course will reflect this.

Sharing a manual between my wife and I isn't cutting corners in my opinion
and certainly wont affect the 'quality' of what we'll get out of the course.
We shared an OW CD-ROM on the advice of the school we trained with, did we
cut corners there as well?

Does someone who used a manual exclusively for themselves now poses better
diving skills than me? Possibly, but not because he didnt share his book.

> Does someone who used a manual exclusively for themselves now poses
better
> diving skills than me? Possibly, but not because he didnt share his book.
>
>

Some places just use photocpopies of the books, and don't need you to buy
one. They don't seem to be any cheaper, so presumably this just means their
profits are higher...

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:56:39 +0100, "paulj48" <paulj48at0tmail.c0m>
wrote:

>> Unbelievable! It's hardly PADI's fault that you haven't been diving
>since
>> > June, now is it?! And anyway, don't forget that you get an additional
>> > certification card for every course you do - that's the whole point of
>the
>> > certification fee! You don't get your old OW card 'upgraded', you know.#
>
>No I didnt know that, but from your sarcastic reply I do now.
>
>Sharing a manual between my wife and I isn't cutting corners in my opinion
>and certainly wont affect the 'quality' of what we'll get out of the course.
>We shared an OW CD-ROM on the advice of the school we trained with, did we
>cut corners there as well?
>
> Does someone who used a manual exclusively for themselves now poses better
>diving skills than me? Possibly, but not because he didnt share his book.
>

You can do the CD rom route for aow. I saved a few quid on that for my
twins (the kids being trained, not towards new tanks). You print out
the knowledge reviews.

Possibly "pikey" but imho I spend enough on diving without chucking
money away. If I buy a £40 mask I don't volunteer to pay £50 as
"diving costs so much anyway, what's another tenner". If I've got a
spare £20 I'll buy Dive Dorset or such like not just hand it over to a
shop for a "back up copy" of a manual. Or even put it towards a dive.

"paulj48" <paulj48at0tmail.c0m> wrote in message
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>
> Sharing a manual between my wife and I isn't cutting corners in my opinion
> and certainly wont affect the 'quality' of what we'll get out of the
> course.
> We shared an OW CD-ROM on the advice of the school we trained with, did we
> cut corners there as well?
>
> Does someone who used a manual exclusively for themselves now poses better
> diving skills than me? Possibly, but not because he didnt share his book.
>

As I remember, simply 'sharing a book' wasn't the issue. I seem to remember
you being 'a bit p*ssed that we'll have to pay another 2 certification fees'
because 'we've only had our OW cards since June but never used them' (which,
it seems, you think is PADI's problem). Put simply, your original post
revealed you as a pikey skinflint that seems to feel that just because
you've completed one course, the rest should be complimentary...