Damselfish
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We're experienced and confident and rarely follow a DM in simple/familiar places like the Caribbean unless there's a special reason. Even so, I found the 4-1 almost private guides we had in Indonesia very nice. They asked people at the beginning about their diving styles and what they wanted to see, put people in compatible little groups, and your guide did just what you wanted. And these were guides that really knew their stuff (unlike some we've run into that weren't all that good at it.) This arrangement definitely did not suck.