robint
Contributor
SEMO - I think you might want to try CoCoView your next trip. The DMs lead the dives, but allow you to do your own thing, also. Since you are assigned a boat and DM for the week, they get to know you the first day, what you like and want to see. So on the dives, they give the brief "we will head down the wall to around 80', then after around 30 min we will come up on top of wall at 45' and you can stay with me or do your own thing, i will point at the boat, be back on boat in 60 min." This was a typical briefing as an example for you. The southside has vertical walls at all dive sites, with shallow flat area on top where the boat is moored. Some people stayed with DM the whole dive. Me, my husband, and another guy photographer stayed in water for full 60 min every dive, finding all types of critters right under the boat area or within eye-sight of the boat. The DM knew this the first day and never had a problem.
Then the 2nd and 4th dives of day are Drop-off dives, where you are dropped off on one of the walls near the resort. You are totally on your own, no DM, and you dive your way back in to the shore at CCV. This is also the area you are free to dive anytime, night dives in particular are awesome.
So what I am trying to say, is that at CCV you don't have to follow around a DM on your dives. Beginners are free to do that if they want, but more advanced divers and photographers in particular can do what they want and have total diving freedom.
robin
Then the 2nd and 4th dives of day are Drop-off dives, where you are dropped off on one of the walls near the resort. You are totally on your own, no DM, and you dive your way back in to the shore at CCV. This is also the area you are free to dive anytime, night dives in particular are awesome.
So what I am trying to say, is that at CCV you don't have to follow around a DM on your dives. Beginners are free to do that if they want, but more advanced divers and photographers in particular can do what they want and have total diving freedom.
robin