How DiveMasters treat you, and why

[Doc]

I generally avoid YAHOO Click Bait, but I pre-read and approved this one for you....

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/we-actually-fear-for-your-life-confessions-of-109851796507.html

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But what about the people we pay to guide us through the insanity? Yahoo talked to some adventure guides and equipment renters to see what they really think about us and our crazy tendencies.
and....
They rank us. Several guides we talked to have a ranking system for patrons most likely to cause themselves bodily harm. They rank us on things like how physically fit we appear, how comfortable we seem in the situation, and how closely we listen to them when they speak.

 

[tajkd]

Of course we do. We also size up the equipment, ease of setting up equipment, physical fitness. It's all vital to the job.

 

[Dive Right In Scuba 2]

It's really simple human nature and a requirement for completing your job of providing a safe dive experience. It's a no brainer that I'm going to watch the guy who is out of breath just walking down the dock and sets up his equipment with the tank on backwards a little closer than say, the guy who looks like a fitness freak who sets up his gear like a military operation.

 

[tursiops]

It's a no brainer that I'm going to watch the guy who is out of breath just walking down the dock and sets up his equipment with the tank on backwards a little closer than say, the guy who looks like a fitness freak who sets up his gear like a military operation.

Actually, both would worry me but in different ways. The former for his medical state and cluelessness, and the latter for his possible tendency to already know it all and not care about additional input or constraints.

 

[Steve_C]

Some things are obvious, but no matter how they look or what they say, caution is advised until they have been in the water for a bit. That is true even for just instabuddying,

 

[Dive Right In Scuba 2]

Agreed, which is not saying I would simply forget about the latter diver....more that the former would get a tad bit more of my attention. Every paying diver on the boat in which I am working is entitled to and will get some of my attention.

 

[Hintermann]

But there can be personality clashes too and sometimes hard to explain. I have been on 18 liveaboard boats and the DMs have been excellent and treated me fine in 16 of those. Of the remaining two, one treated me well all right but seemed to have some issues (maybe personal) which caused him to keep forgetting what he had told us and so on. But the other was a husband-wife team on a Maldives Liveaboard in 2010 (which shall remain nameless). The husband and team leader was perfectly fine with me but for some reason the woman took an istant dislike for me (literally from the moemnt I boarded) and was very nasty throughout, including picking faults which were ridiculous. For example, she accused me of leaving my wetsuit lying around and it turned out it was someone else's. She then told me off for making too much noise with a rattle that scared off an eagle ray and would not even apologise when I told her (truthfully) that I had not even taken my rattle on that dive. She was really a nasty piece of work or just plain touched in her head.