[Sandman]

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A total waste of time and money in my opinion.  If you want to learn something with PADI do the DM course.

I had a diver turn up a dive centre I worked at who had learned to dive in Thailand and was an MSD with only 30 dives to her name including specialities in boat, multi-level and my own favourite reef diver.  

Cheers

Simon

 

[Sandman]

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Quote[/b] ]something's wrong there then, as you need 50 logged dives for the MSD qualification.

This was several years ago and PADI standards may have changed since, I no longer pay the PADI $$ so am not up on the current standards.

I can remember making a point of checking her log book when she said she had learned to dive in Thailand as at the time this area was known for churning out some truly sh1te divers.  Which she in fact turned out to be.