ChrisF
Contributor
Any diver can call the dive at ANY time for ANY reason.
If you gave the thumbs up signal, and were insistent about it, then he was obligated to comply, get to the surface and sort it out. Heck, if you had just gone back up when you wanted to, the captain probably could have brought you back on board and re-dropped you, without too much fanfare. Embarassing (for the DM), but at least it would have saved the dive. That clearly would have been a lot safer than getting blown so far from the boat that it made you nervous.
I think what I would have done in that situation would depend on whether I felt the continuing the dive was unsafe or just inconvieniet. If I felt that continuing the dive would put me at unacceptable risk, then I'd have waved goodbye and headed for the surface. If not, then I'd have probably stuck with him like you did and have just been really pissed off when we got back to the surface.
The divermaster was a bonehead. I hope you gave him a thorough "out brief" to encourage him not to pull anything like that again in the future.
If you gave the thumbs up signal, and were insistent about it, then he was obligated to comply, get to the surface and sort it out. Heck, if you had just gone back up when you wanted to, the captain probably could have brought you back on board and re-dropped you, without too much fanfare. Embarassing (for the DM), but at least it would have saved the dive. That clearly would have been a lot safer than getting blown so far from the boat that it made you nervous.
I think what I would have done in that situation would depend on whether I felt the continuing the dive was unsafe or just inconvieniet. If I felt that continuing the dive would put me at unacceptable risk, then I'd have waved goodbye and headed for the surface. If not, then I'd have probably stuck with him like you did and have just been really pissed off when we got back to the surface.
The divermaster was a bonehead. I hope you gave him a thorough "out brief" to encourage him not to pull anything like that again in the future.