rockjock3:
He stated his buddy wasn't normally a hoover, but I have a question. How the heck does it screw up your diving if I have to surface early with my buddy because of air consumption?
It doesn't effect you in the slightest. I have never been on a boat where they end the dive for everybody just because one group goes up. I have really low air consumption as does my buddy and when we get back on the boat many of the divers, if not all, are already back on it and some of them have even had the time to dekit and change tanks. They didn't screw up my dive at all.
If anything the DM screwed up the dive for everybody else outside the one buddy pair by forcing the diver to share air and therefore limiting the DMs ability to move around as freely and point things out to the divers that were diving with him.
Oh yes, it does. There are places where very swift currents converge on walls and then you get taken over a ledge, etc. There are places where you CAN surface but...you don't want too. I am not sure I would understand this pre-Pelelui. And it is easy to say the person does not belong there, BUT what if you have a leak in your BC, which happened to me on Blue Corner? I had no idea why my air was so low...Or why, JB, a triathelete who was sucking air for no obvious reason...relaxed, no sculling. Turns out his resting HR was 100---whole nother story. People that think they have all the answers and just say " well, just do this or that..." should dive more places in more remote worlds, and you will learn to value skills not listed by PADI. Look, some places the boat captains chew beetle nut and snooze. It doesn't matter if you think it is "correct" or not. if you are going to dive there then what is important is that you notice what the deal is, what the DANGERS are, and improvise accordingly. Just my opinion, of course. The really rigid people put themselves in danger, in my view, cause when they can't dive outside the box, they are lost and get caught with their pants down, so to speak.
and another thing, Rob, that is probably fine, if the DM is you. I have found traveling (and Here) that there are Divemasters you are better off ignoring sometimes and it is not always in your best interest to make a big deal out of it. Sometimes they may have zip education, or a hangover, or worse. You can't always just stomp off and find another operator. Sometimes, you need to think for yourself and just ignore them on some things. I wish I had ignored the last (very knowledgable) Divemaster who told me not to take my reefhook, the current was too swift, and then changed his mind, and parked me by placing my hands on the wall because some epic shark action was taking place. It took a couple months for my hands to heal. Nope...you don't want to do something, just ignore them. A dive master is there to be your "guide" a facilitator...not your nanny. They are not even responsible for your profile, so how come some of you are putting them in charge of EVERYTHING? They have no authority. And if you are diving like it is their job to save your life, you are miscalculating.
