GLOCKSCUBAG!RL
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I was not the DM for this dive, so I an only imagine.
It was in Cozumel, where all the dives are drift dives, and the current can be quite strong. We had completed our first dive, and the DM asked what we wanted to do on the second. We eventually decided on a dive well known for strong currents, but with a very long and complicated swim though. We wanted to do that swim through, so that was the plan.
On the first dive, my insta-buddy, an experienced diver, had been quite independent, straining my skills on staying with him. He clearly had no thoughts of staying with me. I didn't think it was that big of a deal--I can fend for myself, but I still felt an obligation. On this dive it was more of the same. He kept darting away, and I kept chasing after him. I knew the site pretty well, and when the DM started to take the group in a certain direction, I knew that he was heading for the swim through, the target destination for the dive. But my buddy was heading off to explore something else. I hung out half way between him and the rest of the group with the DM as they paused near the beginning of the swim through.
The DM was looking back at me, and I pointed to where my buddy was headed. Even at that distance, I could sense the despair on the part of the DM. My buddy had gone too far with the current to get back with the group, so he took the group to get to my buddy.
Back on the boat, my buddy asked what happened to that great swim through we sere supposed to see. After some prolonged glares from everyone, we told him that we had missed it because we had to chase him down. He thought that was funny.
So, if I were a DM, I would think a pet peeve are the divers who think they are so wonderful that they don't have to follow the plan, and they don't care how many people's dives they screw over.
Oooooooh that would piss me off so bad I would pop him a good one in the face overboard and ask him how funny he thinks he is now....
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