# On my way to become a Dive Master

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 19, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-my-way-to-become-a-dive-master/489982 "2009-03-19T02:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-my-way-to-become-a-dive-master/489982/21 "2009-04-09T03:42:40Z")

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> [@Ale](#):
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> So far, AFAIK, I haven’t broken anything, but during a night dive I cringed when I saw the guy swimming ahead of me break off a half meter long staghorn coral branch with a fin sweep. :mad:

Oh, I frigging _hate_ that. Careless divers really piss me off, as do instructors who over-weight their students so they cannot achieve neutral buoyancy and sink to the bottom instead (makes them easier to keep track of :rolleyes: ). When I worked at PADI, I remember seeing a potential ad layout that an advertiser sent in, with a picture of a bikini model _sitting on a coral head_. Um, no, I don’t think so…

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