Just out of curiousity what was the dive shop?
while I am "new" also, we spent aweek in the keys and dove with 3 different shops (Conch Republic was bar far the best we dove with & no I dont work for them )
But we used 2 others that all had a similar protocol, deep dive on a wreck, but generally the 2nd dive was a shallow reef, but I think the shortest we ever had was a 35 min surface interval.
We were on spiegal on dive and a female diver came up on the wrong line, I watched the captain berate her from the ship as to why she wouldnt swim over (current was typical spiegal-strong) he cussed the whole time he had to move the ship to pick her up, the lady was very freaked out (failry overweight and wasnt up for the swim, maybe she shouldnt have been on the dive, but the dive shop watcher her waddle into the boat and take her money) and I think the whole ship of divers fealt that the attitude of the "captain" was pretty bad, but its typical of the "customer no service" in some of the keys dive shops
while I am "new" also, we spent aweek in the keys and dove with 3 different shops (Conch Republic was bar far the best we dove with & no I dont work for them )
But we used 2 others that all had a similar protocol, deep dive on a wreck, but generally the 2nd dive was a shallow reef, but I think the shortest we ever had was a 35 min surface interval.
We were on spiegal on dive and a female diver came up on the wrong line, I watched the captain berate her from the ship as to why she wouldnt swim over (current was typical spiegal-strong) he cussed the whole time he had to move the ship to pick her up, the lady was very freaked out (failry overweight and wasnt up for the swim, maybe she shouldnt have been on the dive, but the dive shop watcher her waddle into the boat and take her money) and I think the whole ship of divers fealt that the attitude of the "captain" was pretty bad, but its typical of the "customer no service" in some of the keys dive shops