I am finishing my DM training and have to lug tanks, fill them, fit gear to customers that are diving with us, etc.. The Master Instructor is on my case about any little mistake - presentation, training, or my own personal diving. She constantly reminds me that all the divers especially the newer ones are watching me so it is my responsibility to properly display all the techniques that are taught in the classroom. If they see the DM doing differently then they will think, "Oh well, I really don't have to do it the way they taught me in school." A couple of times when I was following I would swim with my head down and feet up at about a 45 degree angle, something I do when looking for photographic subjects. How she saw me is beyond me ( dive instructors in the service weren't as sharp as she is) she be yanking on my fins scolding me with her finger and later chastising me in the office.
Taking the DM course has given me a new found respect for the professionals in the recreational diving business, though I still get aggravated when I am diving and the DM yanks on my dive fins when I am about to depress the shutter button on my camera and gives me the buddy up sign because my dive buddy went off chasing something else. But with all the divers they have too look out for I can't blame him/her. There are a few shops and boats that know me and let me dive the reef as long as they can see my bubbles and I stay close to the boat but I will not give out their names.