| French Federation and our C-cards
Yo all
I ha dreplied to an introduction and it turned interesting, so I thought I start a new thread about it.
I heard that it is quite difficult or even impossible to dive on french dive boats unless you have done a french federation course, meaning is my courses and training so far do not count in France and I could not get onto a diving boat ........
Could you educate me on this point please ... cause you have some awesome wrecks in southern France ...
Hi Matt,
I was on my CCR course with Mike from your shop last week - BTW many thanks the course was excellent and I was very impressed with your set-up and Mike's teaching - I will be moving to the South of France and have heard rumours that the French can be very 'interessant' reagrding people's qualifications. What is you're experience with this and I was wondering if you plan to do a Protec CMAS cross over course to enable some of us non-CMAS qualified divers to dive happily in France in the future,
Regards,
Nick
yo all
As I understand the issue doing a cross over program to CMAS is not the issue even. If your training and certification has been through IANTD then you are part of CMAS. I was just looking at the new redone CMAS web page and could actually not find the listing.
The way I heard it is that even if you hold a CMAS training c-card, which has been earned outside France, is not enough to let you dive inside France, on a French vessel, to that level level of training because you have not done the training under French Federation rules with a French Federation instructor.
I was told that by some French Federation instructors and would like to take the oprtunity her on Rebreather World to learnd more about it.
Matt |