Posted by Dwill on February 16, 2005 at 08:05:59:
In Reply to: Re: Very Interesting posted by Dave on February 15, 2005 at 22:04:40:
The advantage is probably to PADI.
You won't be able to get one without the patch/card.
So PADI makes money, the dive shop gets to the training for little to no money and the diver gets to spend over 1K for POS needless regulator and PADI card...