Aaron528
Contributor
Your tag says you're a "divemaster wannabe." Adherence to standards in principle is, in my very humble opinion, not good enough. Lots of people feel like they've had a positive experience, in spite of "technical violation" of the standards, and the failure to stand up and say HEY, THAT WAS NOT RIGHT makes it so when the poop hits the fan later in your diving career, you have not a single leg to stand on.
You, as a student, deserve the best your instructor and your agency has to offer. You didn't receive that level of service, and letting that behaviour slip by does us all a disservice. The standards are there to protect you. Rewarding poor behaviour on the part of an instructor or a shop by talking about this as a positive experience hurts us all.
kari
Point taken. I agree.