Conor
Guest
There is another type of diver that is a little more outside the control of the instructor, and that is the one who has good trim and finning technique, when they want to. They just don't care about kicking up the bottom.
I am thinking in particular of one diver who throughout the dives he would show that he could swim horizintally, hover etc without issue, but when stopping to look at table coral would stand vertically and rest his fin tips in the sand, then when leaving, rather than use his lung volume to raise himself would kick up a cloud of sand, potentially damging the coral. Whenever I or one of the other divers would wave him to comeup off the bottom he would dismiss us.
I know he knows how to do it and why it is important because I was on the same OW course and at the same briefings, I have seen how he can dive when he wants too.
Unfortunately kicking up the bottom doesn't effect the diver in question directly, so some are selfish enough to not care about what they are doing for the divers who follow.
I am thinking in particular of one diver who throughout the dives he would show that he could swim horizintally, hover etc without issue, but when stopping to look at table coral would stand vertically and rest his fin tips in the sand, then when leaving, rather than use his lung volume to raise himself would kick up a cloud of sand, potentially damging the coral. Whenever I or one of the other divers would wave him to comeup off the bottom he would dismiss us.
I know he knows how to do it and why it is important because I was on the same OW course and at the same briefings, I have seen how he can dive when he wants too.
Unfortunately kicking up the bottom doesn't effect the diver in question directly, so some are selfish enough to not care about what they are doing for the divers who follow.