I see things every dive that would curl your hair. The instructors can't dive. The classes are large. Equipment is not secured
I agree wholeheartedly. It is easy to see students "sneaking" over the wall at Gilboa to get in a 100' dive without redundant anything, and with the buddy awareness of a tadpole. It surely is not Mike's fault, there are warnings all over, comprehensive waivers are signed, deep dive plans must be filed if you are going to exceed 80'.
There are swarms of OW and AOW students at Gilboa most weekends with an instructor to student ratio often in excess of 10 to 1. For those of you not familliar with the quarry, there are few places where you can put your feet down, and this is a significant challenge for the newbie. And, we all know what idiots newbies can be, they just don't know any better.
On the other side of the coin, many of the more advanced tech classes taught there limit the instructor to student ratio to 4 to 1. It is up to the teacher.
I know Mike is very concerned about this situation, and it wouldn't surprise me to see some rules imposed on instructors that they should have imposed on themselves.
Instructors and shop owners, train the newbies well, even if you can't make as much loot right now. Get them interested enough and they will make the jump from rec to tech, and NOW you are talking about REAL money, a good five figure sale.