Nishan
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Enough said. There's always an excuse.
Of course there is
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Enough said. There's always an excuse.
I hope you gave him a good asswhooping?How about this one..
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The next trip a month later, I heard him talking in the school van on the ride down and he was telling another diver that the capt of this boat was not very good, because he lost him. I pretty much lost it ....It is a wonder we even let him dive with the club anymore. Some people are incapable of learning or following the rules.
The next trip a month later, I heard him talking in the school van on the ride down and he was telling another diver that the capt of this boat was not very good, because he lost him. I pretty much lost it ....It is a wonder we even let him dive with the club anymore. Some people are incapable of learning or following the rules.
The resort where we met the guy who habitually ran out of gas had simply assigned him his own dive guide, to share gas with him and bring him up
Really? Someone should have torched his C-card....and sent him packing.
The correct pronunciation is Joisey, you know.
Only if you're from Hudson County...
Some ops are a bit more laid back than others. I was on a boat once with a married couple who'd been diving since the '70's. They dived with gear they probably bought back then ... including regs with just one second stage. I don't think they even owned gauges, much less a dive computer. Their usual way of diving was to stay down until one of them ran out of air, then depending on depth either buddy breathe or CESA to the surface. The dive op was OK with it. Personally I think it's a stupid way to dive, but after nearly 40 years, they hadn't managed to injure themselves yet.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
One dive we did in the Maldives ... at a popular cleaning station ... it was literally raining "divers". They were landing on the bottom tank-first, feet-first, head-first ... however gravity put them there. And once there, the dive guides were insistent that they grabbed ahold of something so they didn't wander off while everyone waited for the mantas to show up. It would've been funny if it weren't so pathetic. At one point I had some guy trying to crawl under me, while at the same time another diver who had just "fallen" down from above was trying to stand on me. Every time I'd try to get above this mess, a dive guide (not even one from our boat, mind you) would swim over, grab me by the arm, and push my hand back down onto a coral ... I assume because he was afraid I might drift away from this mob scene if I didn't hang onto something.I have seen divers who descended, ascended and did part of their dive with the DM holding their tank valve to stabilize their buoyancy. Shocks me how they were certified in the first place.
I was denied an entire day of diving in Roatan once because I showed up too late for the daily checkout dive (the resort's bus driver was late picking us up at the airport).But generally a check out is to assign you to an appropriate buddy/group and dive site.
On our boat we are very rigorous about run-time schedule. If you say you are going to be back on the boat in 50min... you need to be back on the boat - or at least on the hang-line - in 50min. If you are back in 55min, we are going to ask you why you were late. If you call that "making a fuss" so be it. If you are not back for 60min, we are going to send someone to look for you. 15min late? We may well call the Coast Guard. Then you'll really see "a fuss" made.
Now, I'm supposing you are talking about being 5min beyond a boat-imposed run-time. However, this is no different. If the boat says be back on board in 60min, and you agree to this (and by making the dive, you are agreeing to this) you need to be back on board in 60min. If you're late, you're late. Where does the boat draw the line in terms of "how late is late enough to make a fuss? 5min? 7min? 10min? 15min?
Plan your dive. Dive your plan.
On our boat we are very rigorous about run-time schedule. If you say you are going to be back on the boat in 50min... you need to be back on the boat - or at least on the hang-line - in 50min.