Aloha Joe
Contributor
It will be good to dive with other buddies. At first I was questioning myself - whether I was being over attentive, or whether my instructor was very particular with respect to 'standards and rules' (she said people give her a hard time about being a stickler). But as I started to realize my buddy was completely oblivious to lots of skills/standards, I started thinking about what it was like diving with the people in my class and realized I felt particularly safe with a few of them, and that's how I expect my dive buddy to feel at all times.