I'd be fairly annoyed with a dm more than half my age
More than half my age would be pretty open-ended...
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I'd be fairly annoyed with a dm more than half my age
I don't mind a shakeout dive at beginning of trip to check weights and gear and make sure my head's in the game but at this stage in my diving avocation, I'd be fairly annoyed with a dm more than half my age insisting I do a mask check. Perhaps that's wrong of me but that's how I feel.
I can only talk for me, on my island all dives are required to be guided, and if something happens to you or the environment while I'm guiding I can be held responsible. If your last dive was in warm water, or you have not dove in a few months I will ask of you to come do a checkout dive with me or find another dive center. Granted, my checkout dive location is a very good dive with a 20meter deep wall and a cavern, and you will probably enjoy it, but you will still have to take off your mask, clear a regulator and show at least that you can do a neutral bouyancy pivot or a hover. And that is a standard I keep for all people, no matter the cert or the fact that they have been diving for longer then I'm alive.