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From divelizard: My friends took PADI - 1 weekend of classes and then an ocean dive out at Catalina Is.! The test was passed by everyone sharing info.! One of the women never even read the book!
My SSI class was twice a week for 5 weeks, then a shallow lake dive and then an easy ocean shore dive, followed by going with the group on some boat dives.
As an SSI DiveCon soon to be OWI, I’m glad you had a good experience with SSI and I agree that we (SSI) have a quality program.
There are excellent weekend classes out there so the timeframe may be fine. Given your description above I don’t think any good instructors (PADI or otherwise) would advocate ’sharing of info’ to pass the test and students should all be held to the standards in order to be awarded their certification. This sounds like an example of an error in judgement on the part of the instructor and it may not be fair to apply that to all PADI instructors.
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