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I tried with TDI Enriched Air And was told i needed to take the padi class to get certified padi, But I would check with Padi yourself and see what they say.
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Yes if u are certified by another recognized certifying agency, you can continue your education through PADI
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There should be no problem. I did my OW1 with NAUI and Advanced and Rescue with PADI. The PADI website stated that the prerequisite for PADI Rescue course is:
Have a PADI Advanced Open Water certification (or have a qualifying certification from another organization)
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Go to your local PADI dive center and tell them you want to take an advanced class. They are very familiar with PADI’s Instructor S&P’s. It will not be a problem as long as you are open water certified by a recognized agency.
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Yes you can but why would you want to. SDI has a much better program. When you get SDI advanced, you really have something. PADI advanced is just a teaser of 3 specialties. SDI you get the full spscialties. SDI also has a PADI equivalent I think it’s called Advanced Explorer.
Steve
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AirOn - 1/20/2009 12:17 PM 
I’ve been looking into this myself not having any local NAUI anymore...
If you dive a computer, It sounds like you won’t have to relearn the PADI tables and acronims to take the advanced class (at least not at my local PADI shops).
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Steve almost has it completely well-put. PADI’s Advanced Open Water (AOW) is 5 "experience" dives to include Deep, Navigation and 3 Diver’s choice experiences. SDI’s Advanced Open Water is only available once you have completed 5 full specialty certifications (usually 4 training dives per specialty) and a minimum of 25 dives. With PADI you can be AOW after 9 total dives (4 OW and 5 AOW) but with SDI it’s 25 (4 OW, 4x5 Specialty and 1 additional dive - training or non-training). So one could argue that an SDI AOW certification is bestowed upon a more trained diver. SDI does have the "Advanced Adventure Diver" certification to compete with PADI in the business driven marketplace of short attention spans. This is 5 experience dives that can later be credited toward your AOW certification but the AAD is the same as PADI’s AOW.
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