Darnold9999
Contributor
I assume you warn them ahead of time? Otherwise that behaviour may be considered a little passive aggressive?
Yes passive aggressive I suppose, but if you have been told that I dive slowly, and have no interest in a swimming "tour the reef" dive and you still insist on doing that kind of a dive then you can expect to be ignored in return.
Have to say that I really really dislike the "group of divers led by a DM" dive that has become the norm in many locations. Where I live and dive locally there is no such thing. The boat drops you off and picks you up. You are responsible for the dive between those two points. If you need to be at a certain point at the end of the dive you are responsible for getting there - either back to the anchor line or to the end of the drift point for example.
I do like having a guide that is there to find and point out the weird and interesting, but those kinds of guides do not do "tour the reef dives". If they did they quickly would no longer be employed. Having someone at the front of a group of divers swimming across the reef seemingly trying to cover as much ground as possible is a waste of a dive and to be avoided IMHO and wherever possible I do.