(Quote)..."I will probably never qualify to take the SDI course, even with over 100 solo dives. The requirement "Minimum certification of Advanced Diver or equivalent." will prevent me from meeting the prerequisites. There aren’t enough advanced courses that I’m interested in or that I’m not already proficient in. I’m not going to pay to take a bunch of courses just to get the cards so I can pay to take the advanced diver so I can pay to take the solo simply to get the card that will only be accepted by some dive operations. Way too much for far too little".
Here, I would tend to agree with you on this point of taking course that you are not interested in just to get to what you want to do.. I am sure this will lead to another topic also..The way the courses are structured..As far as charters who won’t honor a solo card..Guess they will come off the list of places to do business with for the solo diver.