MikeFerrara once bubbled...
I think that the courts got it right. BS like this would be best settled out behind the barn. It was another example of the incompetence that's rampant in dive instruction.
While there may not be any legal liability on the instructor or any one else the whole affair was, IMO, a gross violation of common sense.
Give me a break! Training dives on the Doria with less than two years and 100 dives experience?
Also, IMO, it would serve all well to remember the name Cincinnati Diving Center. If I were you I'd find out the name of the instructor and avoid him also.