DevonDiver
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It isn't necessarily unspoken pressure. I have experienced an OWSI loudly mocking me on a boat: "Same reg I used last dive? Yup! Same BC I used last dive? Yup! Good to go!"
And yet the same dive 'professional' would teach students to do buddy checks in their OW course?
I've encountered simular 'professionals' also. In my mind, it just illustrates their inexperience. They've yet to encounter a problem, or had to rescue a diver who had a problem, so they operate within a naive state of blissful ignorance...yet to be shattered by reality. It's the perfect example of complacency leading to unsafe diving.
There's no excuse for unprofessionalism though - and an OWSI should be a positive role-model and support the doctrines/procedures that they teach for their agency. It's such a shame that there is no agency driven QA system outside of teaching actual courses...