I really want to dive Mozambique too!! But I fear I'm not physically strong enough. darn it. Finally skilled enough, nolonger strong enough. Sigh.
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So I chimed in "Have fun... I'm going to stay up on top of the reef and do my own thing if anyone else wants to join me." I'm not suggesting that everyone should expect every dive plan to change to meet their whim at the moment. But speak up... the op can't read your mind! In this case, bit by bit, it turned out that NO ONE on the boat actually cared about going to look the garden eels. Once the guide became aware of that, the dive plan was changed to accommodate what the customers actually wanted to do! Imagine that.
It's also possible the DMs were not in deco, but the OP was per his computer. There is a broad grey area where various algorithms and implementations can have pretty different outputs.