Dapper Dan
Banned
Yeah I can see that. Diver is in a panic. He stops and says, "Hold up. Let me stop and put my mask on my forehead so the others will know I'm in a panic". LOLPADI teaches you that mask on forehead is a sign of panic. Other agencies teach you to not panic.
I encountered a smarty-pants instructor who saw me at the dive shop one time with my mask on my forehead after getting off the boat because my hands were full of dive gear, who tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if I was in distress.... I was sort of confused at first because I had forgotten I had the thing up there. It took about 5 seconds for me to get his sarcasm. His excuse was the dive instructors think you're in distress when you have your mask on your forehead.
My reply was, "What bothers me more than a guy with a mask on his forehead is a supposedly trained SCUBA professional who can't tell the difference between a guy in panic and a guy with a mask on his forehead."
Now I can agree with the lost mask excuse. I've had masks washed off my forehead in the waves. I Found one; didn't find the other. The way I feel about that is, when the SCUBA instructor starts buying me my gear, then he can dictate how I wear it. Until then it's my mask, my money, and as "W" said when he chose to keep Donald Rumsfeld and the Generals didn't like it, "I'm the decider".