SolarStorm
Contributor
My experience with the Bahia Divers. I did my certification 3 years ago at the resort. All self learning except the cwd and the owd. Overall the instruction was 6/10. On my last OWD, my dive master/instructor actually left me alone! We went out in very rough water and one of the ladies on the dive freaked out at the surface. One of the other DM and myself were trying to calm her down and get her back into the boat (I am also a lifeguard so was confortable with this). Once we got her in the boat, I looked around for my "buddy", but she was nowhere to be found. She had already done the descent and was waiting for me 40' below. Finally the other DM did the descent with me to see if we could find her. When we surfaced, she did not think it a big deal for a new diver to do a decent in very rough water (3 people got seasick on the way back in) since she was only 40' away. Visability was very low 15' at best, so what a dive instructor was doing on the bottom allone for over 5 min in low visibility was beyond me. She left a bad enough taste in my mouth not to want to dive with them again. I know this is only one instructor, but that was my experience with them.
