Scuba Tech Philippines

Turk is absolutely right that the PADI Wreck course shouldn't certify for overhead environment:

• It allows the same extent of pe*******on as their cavern course (40m/130ft linear from surface, light zone only, rule of 1/3rds gas) in a comparably risky environment. However, it has a far more meagre skill/protocol syllabus, none of the equipment or gas supply requirements, and doesn't require the instructor to be qualified at a higher level (cavern instructors must be, at least, certified cave divers).

• Recreational wreck and cavern training should be virtually identical, as they have virtually identical risks and require a virtually identical skillset.

• PADI Wreck instructors can self-certify to teach this speciality and are not required to have any formal, valid, wreck pe*******on training. They can literally make it up as they go along. This is a huge liability and dereliction of duty of care by the agency. They simply do not assure that instructors are competent to teach the course.

• Actual wreck pe*******on is optional on the course. If a student hasn't actually pe*****ted a wreck, they cannot be considered competent to pe*****te wrecks. As such, the certification CANNOT be considered valid for pe*******on at face value.

• One solitary, short, (optional!) pe*******on dive is nowhere near enough experience to state that a diver can be anywhere near competent inside a wreck. It's a complex environment with multiple unique risks; it takes substantial time to acclimate and perform effectively.

Having taught wreck diving at recreational and technical levels as my primary focus for over 20 years, including for PADI, I could never accept their certification at face value as proof of competency for wreck pe*******on. There are FAR better and safer courses available to recreational divers; e.g. the RAID and TDI Advanced Wreck courses.

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