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Originally Posted by kancho
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Originally Posted by MLenyo
does anyone know if you can use, or has used, a bp/w for AOW and Rescue courses?
thanks for the replies!
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I have heard PADI does not allow BP/W for courses. Maybe students are allowed but the instructors can't use them. I am not sure about the other organizations |
Absolutely 100% untrue.
Individual instructors with an anti-bp/w bias on a power trip may claim otherwise, but they are lying to you if they say so. There are no such regulations in the PADI Instructor Manuals.
That said, it's often easier for an instructor to demonstrate a specific skill if his gear closely matches what most of the students are wearing. For this reason, I wear a traditional BC for pool sessions, as most students tend to wear simple, rented traditional BCs, and demoing gear doffing and donning for someone wearing a BC, while wearing a bp/w, is tricky (especially with long hoses add to the equation).
On the other hand, it's good to expose students to a variety of gear configurations.
For this reason, I wear a traditional BC with regular short hose regs + octo + console in the pool, but for all open water sessions, I wear my normal single tank bp/w righ with long hose and bungied secondary.