Thanks Emily!

If its not on your left then everything will be behind you, also we are thought trim at the start.

Well... 1st you need to learn how to spell Certification! Otherwise no adventure for you!

well. go fuck yourself what bout that

Dark Silver If that is the level of your intellectual maturity... perhaps you should not be diving at all... stick to snorkeling.

Adventure is diving is a partial course. You are require to take 3 specialities only instead of the 5 of the advance course.

You need to learn grammar. You should have had 'certification' in inverted commas and no capital letters; to show you are being 'sarcastic' or quoting from 'another source' just like i did there! Spelling skill is irrelevant to the topic.

PADI doesn't require you to use the shop's equipment. The shop you took your course at might require it, but it's not a PADI requirement. My local dive shop will supply absolutely everything except a swimsuit and towel if the student wants it, but will also allow students who have their own gear to use that as long as it's nothing so arcane that instructors wouldn't be familiar with it or it would be unsafe for beginners to use. Meanwhile, a shop just down the road requires students to provide their own fins, mask, and snorkel, but won't let them use their own BCDs and regulators. They're both PADI shops. PADI doesn't run the shops, and instructors aren't agents of PADI; they're independent agents using PADI course materials, and they agree to follow certain minimum standards but there's a lot of flexibility, too.

Thanks, the local PADI shop in Connecticut insists that you have to use their BCD's

RR Videos That's too bad, but I do understand it. I was lucky that my dive store had four instructors at my sessions, and all but one of them was familiar with the i3 system, which is what my BCD has. They had no problem with me using my own BCD, and when they were watching other students doing ascents by raising their inflator hoses they knew that I'd be reaching for my left hip instead. It was all good. Other instructors might insist that all students use standardized gear and follow standardized procedures; then when you get certified you can learn your own gear's individual methods on your own. I can see advantages and disadvantages to both ways of doing it.

The problem is that the course was not for certification, but just a course to improve buoyancy. So what good is dropping $300 to practice buoyancy in a jacket bcd when you own a back inflation bcd Well I switched to a Mares Hybrid BCD (Pro Hybrid Tech) and all my buoyancy issues were solved. I still have complete freedom of motion with my arms, and the 3 dump valves allow great control while making videos.

RR Videos "The problem is that the course was not for certification, but just a course to improve buoyancy." That IS silly. I'd find a different instructor.