Diving Courtesy

[DRE]

Whether it's legal or not is beside the point.

You keep saying the instructor bombed down on you. Did the person actually run into you? Was the person coming down feet first to maintain visual contact with the students? Did you move or indicate that you were leaving? Intentionally or not?

It were the students who came bombing down on top of us while we were performing an OOG drill - we had to cut the drill short - that is after I got hot in the head twice by people descending without looking where they were going. I'd personally never would let any student descent like that, but that's just my opinion. Furthermore, the instructor didn't seem to be paying too much attention either: as we left the platform I had to grab one of the students by the tank valve and help her toward the platform, as she had "missed the drop" and was scrambling for the railing, way overweighted.

Personally if a class came to use the platform, I would immediately give them the space, especially if it was beginners. Imagine telling your students you the dive plan and then getting to the bottom then changing the plan. That would set many on tilt from the start.

The instructor came down by himself, attached the flag to the platform, went up and a bit later all the students came freefalling down. How hard is it to tell students to swim another 30 ft on the surface towards the next platform? BTW, we didn't mind moving but a little bit of forewarning, such as the instructor giving us a thumbsignal or whatever would have been nice.

I would think diving without a flag is far more egregious than what the instructor/class did? I have a hard time believing that not using a flag follow with the DIR philosophy.

No, it's not DIR as it creates a charlie foxtrot dealing with it during the entirety of the dive, only use the marker when ascending in boat traffic.