I am a relatively new diver and I trusted a dive shop-Once. As a single diver, diving a new location, I had requested a trained guide for the dive: thought they had assigned me one. What they had done (in their arrogance) had decided was to assign me to a guy who had dove with them a several times before and was pretty cocky. As a newbie, I figured, they new what they were talking about.
A squall kicked up. My ’guide’ got very lost and wide eyed panicked-an extreme panic and swam off three times. I had to catch up to him.. and try to calm him down. The storm on the surface was really getting nasty. I got him back close enough to the boat so they could see us-I never realized exactly how small a boat can looklike a little toy. When all was finally said and done-I had gotten him back to the boat in 20-25 foot swells. Would you believe they were "getting ready to go get help."
There rudeness when I got back on the boar was ridiculous. They were helpful in getting me on, but then the way they talked to me. I thought it better to keep my mouth tightly clamped considering the best-that we were OK and safe.
They-of thier own accord-did not listen to me or honor my request, nor take me seriously. They totally set me up with some guy that was not throughly trained and couldn’t navigate to find his ’big toe.’
It was pretty rude and it was also very dangerous.
Won’t go back there anytime soon.