Togalive
Contributor
You know what scares me; instructors telling or having the students dive when they are clearly not ready.
I saw this in the Bahamas when I was there two weeks ago. I was on an afternoon dive with a newly "certified" diver and what I mean by newly certified he spent a few hours in a pool on a resort course. This kid was clearly not ready; you could tell he was nervous but went diving anyway because he paid his fees and did some stuff in a pool. The instructor at his side should of seen that and not taken him out to the wall and then to the wreck in 70 fsw beyond OW limits.
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I know what you mean! My significant other recently took a Discover Scuba course in Hawaii with her two sisters (none of which are the lady in question for this thread btw). The instructor took the three of them out to a buoy, then had her wait at the surface as he took her two sisters down to 32 fsw. He then proceeded to leave them there and ascend to her as she waited on the surface, and after a few minutes they descended back down to meet her sisters. What went through that instructors head to make him think of leaving two non-divers on the bottom completely unsupervised for an extended period of time is beyond me. Why not just descend as a group?