jcaplins
Contributor
My guess is that those who have responded here are trying to encourage the OP to not do what so many new divers do, which is to forget all about "dive planning" as soon as they finish the OW course and are out in the "real world" of dive boats with divemaster-led dives. Yes, we all know that in that world the diver can get by without doing any planning with tables or computer. But it would be irresponsible of us here to encourage the new diver to fall into that kind of complacency and/or let those newly acquired dive planning skills get rusty.
Are you saying that my statement is encouraging non-planning?