🚀 go-pugleaf

>     I recently became NAUI certified, and am working on my PADI Advanced
>Open Water card.  I'm curious about where to go from here.  I've know that
>PADI has both Divemaster and Master Diver ratings, and that there are a
>number of specialty ratings, but I don't understand the relationship
>between the different ratings.  Can somebody help?

After PADI Advanced Open Water course, you can take any of the
specilty courses, such as wreck diving, deep diving, search and
recovery, night diving, ice diving, and so on.  You can also take
the Rescue Diver course which is no longer a specilty but now a new
rating.  The Rescue Diver course is manditory for the Divemaster
course.  As for the Master Diver, you get that rating by becoming a
PADI Divemaster and 5 specilty ratings.  (I am a Divemaster with 3
specilties, and also half way through the Assistant Instructor
course.)

After the Divemaster or Assistant Instructor course, you can attend
an Instructor Development Course followed by an Instructor
Evaluation Course and become a PADI Open Water SCUBA Instructor.

Even if you don't continue to Instructor, take the Divemaster
course, you WILL learn a lot more then you did in the prior courses.


                                        Rich Schiraldi
                                        PADI DM# 21546
                                        rruxe!bsisrs

    Some
    Come
    Up
    Barely
    Alive