No problem, and again I am tossingh ouit pc for the sake of the truth. I hate to say it but, yes you will either need to deal with the BS or not dive. I will go out on a limb and say that if you stick it out and do the dive you will eventually win their respect. This is also assuming that you dive with the same group over the course of time.

I wish you the best of luck. We don't dive alot of deep wrecks of caves or anything overly extreme but if you make it anywhere near us you are welcome to dive with us.