| From the instructor manual
"A teaching status PADI instructor must conduct the knowledge development and waterskills development sessions and accompany participants on the first open water scuba dive"
"Subsequent open water dives can be conducted by a certified assistant on a 1:2 ratio, indirectly supervised by a teaching status PADI instructor"
"The maximum depth for any discover scuba diving open water dive is 12 metres"
Since certified assistants need to be renewed PADI DMS, AIs or OWSIs, a DM under training can surely not be a certified assistant, since they are not yet registered as a DM?? And it doesn't sound like there was an instructor indirectly supervising the dives |