Diving Courtesy

[Groovekitty]

My original post was not about whether we had a dive flag or not. It was about courtesy.

The insturctor, unless he's a complete idiot, was completely aware that we were on the platform - whether from our bubbles on the surface or when he saw us with his own two eyes.

Regardless, I still do not understand why, in a first come first served type of situation, he felt compelled to interrupt our training for his own purposes.

As I stated before, if we had bombed down in that manner on a class the instuctor would have been livid - why then is it ok for him to interrupt our training and expect us to give way to his class when we were there first???????

Would his class give way for us if the situation was reversed???

Furthermore, these appeared to be new and inexperienced divers - what kind of an example did this instructor set for these students?

(and yes - we were both actually hit by multiple students)