I've had a similar experience being led by inexperienced leaders and it's really a drag.
Nothing worse than when your leader forgets to change tanks and freaks out underwater. Then swims back hard to the boat not keeping tabs on the people he was leading. Then doesn't even think to switch tanks and take the divers back out even after I suggested it he felt it wasn't an option.
The previous dive the leader couldn't handle an under-weighted diver, surfaced with that diver during our decent without letting the others know. We waited for 1 minute then surfaced. In his diving brief he pointed out the 1 minute rule. You would think that he would follow it! So we ascended and he wasn't there. We waited for more than 5 minutes for him to surface perhaps closer to 10. When he surfaced he was a good 80 meters from the boat. Needless to say, he aborted the remainder of the dive and told us to lead ourselves if we wanted to get a dive in.
These were both dives under 12M.
To the Ops credit, I was given a free day of diving. The others didn't ask and weren't offered the free diving.
How do you like that? Can anyone top that one?
LK no need to respond as we have already heard yours.
Yes I can top that!
3 customer, I paired with a other diver
1 customer paired with the "DM" Canadian guy, forgot the name.
I didn't had much experience yet.
deep somewhat 25 meter.
After a while someone pointed out that we are just 3 people. The DM lost his buddy.
A bit of searching.....nothing
he told us to wait down and surfaced.
long time nothing till we decided to surface as well.
His buddy had one hose blown. he was fresh from the Open Water training (25m????).
OK he got a new tank.
We continued.....25 meter
After a while I got low on air (I had no new tank).
I signaled 50 bar OK
40 bar OK
30 bar OK
.....
till 20-25 meter deep
at a point I just gave the signal that I surface, he wasn't happy with that.
I think during the 3 min safety stop I was at 15 or so bar (can't recall) and gave him the signal that I don't get any air anymore and took his Octopus (because I thought better have a bit left).
Afterwards he complained that no air isn't a problem I could have continued the dive on his Octopus.
Later I saw one DM trying to screw my DIN into a INT tank.....