Padi vs SSI vs FFESSM \\ What scuba diving school to choose? // Crazydivers

Hello everyone!
I got this question asked quite a lot, what training is the best? Wich scuba school to choose?
There is no training better than another, I truly belive that the teacher makes the quality of the training, not the school.
However the person that you are can be attracted to a school etics or way of learning more than another. That's why I wanted to present you 3 scuba school that I know :)
Tell me what is the one you chose in the comments!
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[@elmo319]

As a PADI DM, I’ve dived with NAUI, SSI and BSAC amongst others with no issue. There is always differing opinions between agencies, like SSI state max accent rate is 9m per minute but PADI state 18m per minute. The founder of PADI was originally a NAUI guy so NAUI divers believe they are better but the truth is that with whichever agency you go with you’ll take a different route to get to the same place. PADI started to make beginner diving easier to attract more people to the sport (for business purposes too), which is partly why they have overtook everyone else in recreational diving market. Being certified in any school at any level does not make you a great diver, only experience and training over time makes you a good diver. 👌

[@ClassicCalvin]

hey good video keep it up !!!

[@RAFI_SCUBA_COOK]

Selling Mares equipment is not really a mandatory just depends on the dive center you work with.

[@hotmail20354]

Thanks for making the video!

[@CrazyDivers]

You are more than welcome :)

[@jesspeoples3292]

I got my Padi open water in 2010 and I recently completed my advance open water from Padi and my nitrox certification as well.

[@CrazyDivers]

Congratulations!

[@virgiliofc]

What about SDI? I am about to take the open water certification. Thanks

[@ivanfoong1498]

The duration to get certified as a PADI DM is not necessarily within 1 month. It's purely based on performance requirements and if the candidate is able to meet and master them then they are able to be certified. With this said, different dive operators and centers may sell their packages differently. Some within a month, some within weeks and some maybe much longer. And should the candidate require more time than stipulated, additional time would have to be added. It all depends on the dive center/instructor offering the course and also the performance of the candidate. In fact I've came across SSI dive centers offering courses from zero to hero (Open Water diver to Instructor) within 1 month. But I've also seen dive centers from various agencies (PADI/SSI/SDI/RAID etc) that produce quality students and professionals both skills and dive science/theoretical knowledge. So my say choose your dive center/instructor wisely. Not purely based on the training agency they're with.

[@judasliongaming640]

Hey Annelle! Come over to the Philippines especially in Malapascua Island. I'm enrolled as scuba diver and diveshop admin at French Kiss Divers, an SSI entity. Its crazy out here :)

[@CrazyDivers]

I'd love to come one day! I heard that the Philippines where one of the best diving spot on the planet!

[@nicolasstempak9546]

From what I saw, SSI is often cheaper than PADI, but not recognized everywhere. I like to be an SSI, FFESSM and FQAS one to be able free diving in France, Quebec and many other countries.

[@CrazyDivers]

Thank you for your feedback Nicolas!

[@Abdullah7addad]

Padi is currently getting its market share eaten by other organisation the easiest way to find out is check the latest reports of the numbers of licenses they issued last year yes exactly you wont find any reports as they stopped providing it for couple of years now

[@Abdullah7addad]

last thing to know is for my country at least we had around 50 PADI dive centers and 2 SSI dive centers 2 years ago now adays we have 32 SSI dive centers compared to 20 PADI dive centers

[@MarcoFaccio]

SSI is as much recognized as PADI or other agencies. :) (2019)

[@SAMTRASH-plonge-sous-marine]

Franchement ton contenu c'est top j'aime beaucoup❤ sauf que j'ai pas fait anglais supérieur lol😂 encore moins allemand et espagnol on oublie😂😂😂

[@CrazyDivers]

Pour l’allemand t’es safe, je dois savoir dire 3 mots et encore pas forcément prononcés correctement! 😅 Mes vidéos les plus récentes ont du français, et toutes mes vidéos ont les sous titres traduits en français également ;)

[@MrBACARDI1978]

I am ssi dive guide

[@MartinKadlec]

Thank you for the video, how about CMAS in France?

[@CrazyDivers]

HelLo Martin! I've never been working with CMAS in France, but I have a couple of friends who did, if you have specific question they'll be happy to answer it for you. During my divemaster training, I worked with a german CMAS instructor. He needed me to play the 'dead body' in a Rescue course. I found it to be super complete, and maybe more in depth than what EFR and Padi/SSI provide.. So on this part I can tell you that I learned a lot from CMAS. Maybe it was just the way the instructor teached it, but I think CMAS is more practice focus than Theory focused... On a personal point of view, I am a scientist and love studying the theory, so I would *maybe* be desapointed on this side, who knows? I think the way your instructor will train you is more important than the school you choose ;)

[@ludovicferras5932]

Hi Martin French diving federation (FFESSM) is a founding member of CMAS, ie. when you get a French certification you automatically get a CMAS one, usually recognized all over the world. The other side of the deal is that there is no CMAS straight training in France, as these are provided by French diving associations (FFESSM , ANMP, FGTS). Basically you have 2 world diving families: - World Recreational Scuba Training Council (WRSTC) = PADI SSI ... Profit oriented diving training agencies, for recreational dives without deco, max depth 40 meters - CMAS, regrouping a wider scope of national federations & others diving agencies ( IANTD / SDI-TDI ...) for a wider scope of underwater activities (deco, tech dive, Freediving, ....) Hope this help

[@maciekmackiewicz15]

Is padi and Ssi cost of the course about the same? If you have the padi certification is it reognisale as experience of your dive log to the ssi log?

[@CrazyDivers]

The price of the course might depends of the place you train, but SSI is generally cheaper than Padi for the DM course alone. Padi and SSi are generally recognized pretty well around the world. I would encourage you to check on their website/app their patnered dive centers before planing your trips

[@kurtsteiner8384]

PADI is a money pit. All you need is open water in order to do commercial or navy diving. As I said they are out to make money out of people. PADI don't recognise any other institution certifications. I am former Royal Navy clearance diver, and PADI and BSAC diving organisations.

[@aminebelhadj2929]

Bonjour, Je voulais savoir si je passe l’open water avec SSI je pourrais passer l’advance open water en padi ? Ou bien je serai bloqué avec SSI. Et pourrais-je plonger avec mon open water dans n’importe quel centre ?? Merci !!!!

[@CrazyDivers]

Bonjour, oui tout à fait il y a des passerelles entre les différentes écoles de plongée

[@aminebelhadj2929]

@@CrazyDivers merci beaucoup !!!

[@user-pg6rf5zw7z]

I guess the french system is more efficient then padi or ssi

[@robby92]

The big difference in the French federation is that the teachers are 95% volunteers (work for free, no business here), for all inner clubs, except for the clubs at sea where there is some business. It means that you cannot « buy » your certification, you have to deserve it !

[@CrazyDivers]

Very true! Thank you for your imput :D

[@alistairharris7891]

Padi also charge for their master diver cert. SSI don’t

[@CrazyDivers]

Oh really? I did not know that. Is that a one time fee for the certification or more like a yearly fee to keep certified?

[@alistairharris7891]

CrazyDivers one time fee

[@elmo319]

It costs £20 in the UK, it’s just an admin fee. Hardly breaking the bank. Having said that, I didn’t bother with master scuba diver C card and just did my DMC (dive master certificate)

[@TheRedbaron11]

I didn't know some certification can be not acceptable in certain countries. I have RAID certification so the French schools would probably even question my existence lol

[@user-pg6rf5zw7z]

What is raid certification

[@TheRedbaron11]

@@user-pg6rf5zw7z RAID is another certifying agency like PADI and SSI

[@dharamveerpanwar7767]

Which one is best for diving PADI or AIDA

[@CrazyDivers]

I don’t know of AIDA so I cannot help you with that

[@djjoshua007]

Vs tdi

[@CrazyDivers]

I never trained with TDI unfortunately so I cannot tell you the differences with SSI and Padi, but maybe someone scolling through the comment could :)

[@massgator1]

when i was 14 years old i asked my mother to take me to a dive shop so that i could learn scuba diving but when we got there the guy that owned the dive shop said to me to learn scuba diving you must sign your name but i refused because i hated my name so much so i lost out on scuba diving i also lost out on 2 dozen other once in a life time activities because i refused to sign my name on those activities as well i have now changed my old name to a new name now that i have a new name it doe's not bother me one bit that i lost out on scuba diving and 2 dozen other once in a life time activities any one else that wants to learn scuba diving do not do it because you will be asked to sign your name like i was asked to the guy said to me to learn scuba diving you must sign your name but i refused to do so.

[@CrazyDivers]

Yes you do need to give your name in order to get certification cards. That way ppl now what your level of scuba diving is. It is a bit like a d(r)iving licence :)

[@Dhikamei]

You are dive guide not divemaster, you must take science of diving so you will get DM SSI.. You are not DM still..

[@CrazyDivers]

I do have science of diving certifications. I just don’t pay for the divemaster status yearly :)

[@Dhikamei]

@@CrazyDivers Okey Okey

[@ehenvumun]

Hi you are cute☺

[@CrazyDivers]

🤣 I should rename this video « what’s cuter? Paid or SSI ? »