Open Water Course: Skin Diving and buddy breathing totally removed. No longer listed as optional.
Rescue Diver Course: 4 Senarios changed to 2 Senarios
Divemaster Course: DM candidates are now required to have an instructor manual. DMCs are now required to teach a discover scuba (or simulaed with instructor) and DM conducted program.
Buddy Breathing is no longer a required skill for any PADI course
IDCS candidates must be EFR Instructors.
There is also a lot more detailed information about ratios, which is a change I am very happy to see
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Not sure how I feel about so many changes, at once, but I will be going over these in detail in the next few days to see how they are going to affect our classes.