"I know I'm not qualified to do so." I find this statement terribly, terribly sad.
You guys are completely missing the point of my OP.
A new diver who wants a DM to go on his dives with him to watch out for his safety is smart.
That's all I'm saying.
But every time a newby posts something like that, you guys instantly pounce. "You're not accepting responsibility for your own safety." No. It's just the smart thing to do.
When I returned from Cozumel yesterday and told my wife about the swim-throughs and diving the walls, she asked, "Did you have a DM with you?" I replied, "Yes." She said, "Good."
Do you think she asked that because she thinks I'm incompetent? No. She asked it because she loves her husband.
I don't care how well qualified you are as a newby with 22 dives to take care of yourself. With only 22 dives you're not as safe in the water as someone with 300 dives, and you're not as safe in the water without a DM than you would be if you were in the water with a DM watching out for your safety.
Now, having said that, if you say that the newby who doesn't feel completely safe in the water without the DM didn't get adequate training, then what would you have him do? Stop diving? Go back and retake OW and AOW? No. He needs more experience diving, that's all. And how should he get that experience? Without a DM or with a DM? With a DM, of course!
It's weird, it's as if none of you read my OP.
Or maybe we're speaking different languages.
The way you're all responding to my OP just proves what I've always suspected, and that's that you don't really have a point to make so much as love criticizing people for their incompetence.
Get a life.