sportxlh
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wow... truly didn't mean to be offensive. Your profile says 0-24 dives so I jumped to the conclusion that the posted info on your dive experience is correct.... believe me, if that is true, a trained DM will know after 10 seconds of observation. An experienced diver is pretty unlikely to be grabbing the reef while an inexperienced diver is more likely.
Now if your posted dive profile isn't correct and you are, in fact, very experienced, it could simply mean they don't know you very well. I wouldn't exactly call myself a regular at the shop, more like a semi-regular so that might be the driving factor for why they allow me to do my own thing, without a second thought, and have never asked me to remove gloves. I've done quite a bit of diving with the senior Captain when he was at another Keys shop.
Now if your posted dive profile isn't correct and you are, in fact, very experienced, it could simply mean they don't know you very well. I wouldn't exactly call myself a regular at the shop, more like a semi-regular so that might be the driving factor for why they allow me to do my own thing, without a second thought, and have never asked me to remove gloves. I've done quite a bit of diving with the senior Captain when he was at another Keys shop.