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Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Today, SSI. I moved from PADI to SSI recently with the business, so I've dropped my PADI status to Alumni. We don't have enough people demanding PADI to make the dues worth it, so only one of us keeps their PADI active to work with those people. If I move to a different organization that's PADI, a fee and a skills examination will put me back right where I was, so it was a no-brainer.

All good. All of these organizations work off of Navy dive tables with only slight deviations to NDL table calculations, and don't we all dive computers these days anyway? And, honestly, PADI looks to be taking SSI's lead on allowing instructors more flexibility in skills assessment timing because, well, SSI has been cutting into PADI's dominance over the past 5 years. Again, I don't care, I just love to dive and love to teach people how to dive. The only downside to SSI is that you can't be independant, you have to be part of a dive operation that's "SSI". And PADI is being pressured into the same by some of their larger organizations that aren't happy that independent instructors who are working out of their garage are undercutting their prices.

I got my cert in 2018 and dove in Turks and Caicos. Have not been able to go since then.