victorzamora
Contributor
One guide in Roatan helped "stabilize" me before my giant stride and managed to "help" me without me realizing. I had already done my checks. I chewed him out after surfacing, and he tried giving me the "quarter turn off" speech which i promptly stopped.The only time I ever had the valve actually turned off was by my instructor during OW pool work. And no, he wasn't testing me. Taught me very early on to always take a few breaths watching gauge just before splash.
In sm, though, the valves are tucked and out of reach of "helpful" hands.