stevejaz
Contributor
Here's the scenerio....
We've gone on vacation and a buddy and I are certifying. My wife is not certified but had dove twice before on resort dives. My son had never dove and his friend had done a few resort dives on a previous occassion through the same outfit.
One of the days I'm doing my certs they sign up for a resort dive. They go through a horrible intro in the resort pool and dive later that day with a decent instructor and the dive goes okay.
The following day they want to dive again as do I so we go through the same outfit. Prior to the dive I approach the instructor and tell him I'm going to tag along. On the first dive we all meet at the bottom (about 35'). The instructor proceeds to lead with everyone falling in behind him so I naturally took the last position so I can keep an eye on everyone. As we're going along everyone begins to space out with my son loosing ground. He looks to be doing fine but I can tell he's a little distressed and not very comfortable. Expecting the instructor to stop and regroup we continue on. Instead the gap continues to grow and we are now 50~75' behind the instructor at which point I check my son's air. 500 PSI :shocked2: I grab him and start a slow ascent. We stop at 15' for 3 minutes, surface, and get back on the boat. During this time the instructor never stopped or turned back. On the boat I approach the instructor casually and tell him what occured. He responds that he's was aware of his remaining air and all was fine.
My wife and I dismissed that as a bad experience that we learned from and vowed to get everyone certified before any more diving.
So, fast forward 6 months to now and my wife is currently certifying. Her and an instructors assistant are talking and she tells her of this incident. To my wife's surprise the assistant tells her everything that I did wrong in surfacing with my son?????
In looking back I should have tried to signal the instructor by rapping on my tank or something but I was suprised by a couple things. First the lack of supervision and second his tank being that low. So rather than waste anymore time I chose to do a normal ascent and for the 2 of us to surface .
Wrong thing to do?
I was suprised there wasn't a second instructor/dm with them. What is the normal protocal for 3 uncertified divers?
We've gone on vacation and a buddy and I are certifying. My wife is not certified but had dove twice before on resort dives. My son had never dove and his friend had done a few resort dives on a previous occassion through the same outfit.
One of the days I'm doing my certs they sign up for a resort dive. They go through a horrible intro in the resort pool and dive later that day with a decent instructor and the dive goes okay.
The following day they want to dive again as do I so we go through the same outfit. Prior to the dive I approach the instructor and tell him I'm going to tag along. On the first dive we all meet at the bottom (about 35'). The instructor proceeds to lead with everyone falling in behind him so I naturally took the last position so I can keep an eye on everyone. As we're going along everyone begins to space out with my son loosing ground. He looks to be doing fine but I can tell he's a little distressed and not very comfortable. Expecting the instructor to stop and regroup we continue on. Instead the gap continues to grow and we are now 50~75' behind the instructor at which point I check my son's air. 500 PSI :shocked2: I grab him and start a slow ascent. We stop at 15' for 3 minutes, surface, and get back on the boat. During this time the instructor never stopped or turned back. On the boat I approach the instructor casually and tell him what occured. He responds that he's was aware of his remaining air and all was fine.
My wife and I dismissed that as a bad experience that we learned from and vowed to get everyone certified before any more diving.
So, fast forward 6 months to now and my wife is currently certifying. Her and an instructors assistant are talking and she tells her of this incident. To my wife's surprise the assistant tells her everything that I did wrong in surfacing with my son?????
In looking back I should have tried to signal the instructor by rapping on my tank or something but I was suprised by a couple things. First the lack of supervision and second his tank being that low. So rather than waste anymore time I chose to do a normal ascent and for the 2 of us to surface .
Wrong thing to do?
I was suprised there wasn't a second instructor/dm with them. What is the normal protocal for 3 uncertified divers?