JH-> I don't want to start a PADI vs NASDS war here, but how can you call
 JH-> a course superior when it graduates a nonswimmer? Until you learned
 JH-> how to swim, you were an accident waiting to happen, just as any
 JH-> nonswimmer near the water is a danger to themselves.
I didn't say I couldn't swim, it just wasn't a pretty sight.  I could
dog-paddle for days but that was about it.  I can swim just about any stroke
now (still not a pretty sight) but my best is the side-stroke.  When I did 
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divemaster training there was I time limit and I could never have done it 
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a dog-paddle.  As for a superior course  for underwater navigation I had to 
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a triagle and the basic course also covered some of what I learned in the 
ADI
rescue course.  For these reasons I feel the NASDS course was superior.  But
that was open water and I never went beyond that in any of their courses. 
--- Ted's Castle 
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