Feesh wrote:
 
>Clearly wrong.  Refresh your SAC rate and how it translates to
length of dives at various depths.  Not many people (beginner
or not) do 60 minute dives only because not many dive operations
conduct 60 minute dives.<

Huhh? Any operator around here lets us do 60 minute plus dives. They dump
us in first, that's all.

>Being able to ascend slowly enough is NOT a matter of "sense", but
a matter of "skill".  You grossly overestimated the diving skills of
recreational divers.<

I've never done that yet.

>You seem to forget we were talking about Molasses Reef.  What current?<

You have not been there very often, it seems.

>Florida Keys are the ONLY locations I've dived where DMs don't get wet.<

OK, that's your experience,  but there are lots of places where they don't.
And lots of people dive without a commercial operation at all. All of my
european dives are done that way. We get there, we dive. Very simple.

>  In unfamiliar locations/sites, a DM led dive ranges from a "must" to a
"desirable to show where things are".<

Uhh ... no. 

>I dive with the same buddy (my wife) in more dives than most divers
have dives in their entire life, including possibly you. <

Number of dives does not translate directly into competence. 

>Do you prefer to fumble along with your favorite buddy WITHOUT Strike as
your Guide?<

While I would gladly dive with Mother Strike at Shelley, I doubt that I
would "fumble around" without him. I almost never dive with a DM. Anywhere.
Maybe that's the difference.

michael