Anthony Jones
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Dive Training just had an article about this subject.
As I explain every time someone asks me if I'm in distress....."What distresses me more than seeing a MOF is a so-called "professional" or self-proclaimed "experienced diver" that doesn't have enough frigging sense to tell the difference between a guy drowning and a guy casually wearing his mask on his forehead." That usually shuts them up.
I was out this summer diving with a class. We had a new "assistant instructor". He didn't know I sometimes assist with the rescue course and I go dive with the class. We'd never met. So I go out with the OW class to dive just for the free boat ride while they're doing their class stuff. He sees me in about nipple-deep water with my mask on my forehead and thinks I'm a student in his class and his "I'm gonna be an instructor" Alpha male thing kicks in...in his best "drill sergeant" voice he yells..."Hey you! <pointing finger at me> You with the mask on your forehead! Get that mask of your forehead! Once you're certified then you can wear it any way you want to!"
I replied, "Well that's good then. Cause I was certified in 2002." He looked over at the instructor kind of confused. Instructor just laughed at him and said "Anthony isn't in the class. I certified him 16 years ago."
As Dive training so elegantly put it in their last issue, "I've never seen a drowning diver say, "Well hang on a second. I'm drowning. Let me put my mask on my forehead so someone will come and rescue me."
As I explain every time someone asks me if I'm in distress....."What distresses me more than seeing a MOF is a so-called "professional" or self-proclaimed "experienced diver" that doesn't have enough frigging sense to tell the difference between a guy drowning and a guy casually wearing his mask on his forehead." That usually shuts them up.
I was out this summer diving with a class. We had a new "assistant instructor". He didn't know I sometimes assist with the rescue course and I go dive with the class. We'd never met. So I go out with the OW class to dive just for the free boat ride while they're doing their class stuff. He sees me in about nipple-deep water with my mask on my forehead and thinks I'm a student in his class and his "I'm gonna be an instructor" Alpha male thing kicks in...in his best "drill sergeant" voice he yells..."Hey you! <pointing finger at me> You with the mask on your forehead! Get that mask of your forehead! Once you're certified then you can wear it any way you want to!"
I replied, "Well that's good then. Cause I was certified in 2002." He looked over at the instructor kind of confused. Instructor just laughed at him and said "Anthony isn't in the class. I certified him 16 years ago."
As Dive training so elegantly put it in their last issue, "I've never seen a drowning diver say, "Well hang on a second. I'm drowning. Let me put my mask on my forehead so someone will come and rescue me."
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