Bratface
Contributor
I was on the boat today diving with 6 others. One was a 10 year old who was newly certified and his dad who was fairly new as well. The interfering diver made it quite clear to all aboard that she had Dive Master status and had 120 dives.
The 10 year old was doing well, he really paid attention to his lessons. He swam next to me for part of the dive and I would show him interesting sea life. At one point he was looking at stuff with his dad and ascended to about 25 feet (we were around 37 feet at the time). I was directly below him and so was his dad and the dive leader. He was doing a fine job of getting himself back down when the interfering diver swam up to him, placed a weight in his pocket and sent him to the sand.
When she got back on the boat she explained to him that SHE was a DIVE MASTER so she could put weights in his pocket like she did. She didn't bother to check his air or encourage him to dump some air from his BC, she just took it upon herself to "help" this young new diver who was doing just fine on his own. No harm was done, but I felt like telling her to make sure she was really helping before she acted the next time.
Thanks for listening.
The 10 year old was doing well, he really paid attention to his lessons. He swam next to me for part of the dive and I would show him interesting sea life. At one point he was looking at stuff with his dad and ascended to about 25 feet (we were around 37 feet at the time). I was directly below him and so was his dad and the dive leader. He was doing a fine job of getting himself back down when the interfering diver swam up to him, placed a weight in his pocket and sent him to the sand.
When she got back on the boat she explained to him that SHE was a DIVE MASTER so she could put weights in his pocket like she did. She didn't bother to check his air or encourage him to dump some air from his BC, she just took it upon herself to "help" this young new diver who was doing just fine on his own. No harm was done, but I felt like telling her to make sure she was really helping before she acted the next time.
Thanks for listening.