Setting up your own gear is a good idea, as we've all seen from the posts here. If someone else sets up your gear for you, break it down and set it up again yourself. Then politely ask them not to make the same mistake again. The dive boats that set up for you do so because they think you're too lazy or incompetent to do it yourself. Show them that they're wrong and they'll be happy to turn the work over to you.
But the last thing every diver should do before he leaves the boat is to check every airflow device to MAKE CERTAIN that it works. You can get suprised if all you do is look at your SPG or give your regulator a quick toot. Take a couple of breaths from every regulator. Hit all the inflator buttons long enough to know that it works and that the device is actually inflating.
Dive safe.
Steven
But the last thing every diver should do before he leaves the boat is to check every airflow device to MAKE CERTAIN that it works. You can get suprised if all you do is look at your SPG or give your regulator a quick toot. Take a couple of breaths from every regulator. Hit all the inflator buttons long enough to know that it works and that the device is actually inflating.
Dive safe.
Steven