Quote Originally Posted by PinayDiver View Post

- occasionally appalled by DMs with strange ways (one had us finning against the current the entire dive and still we missed the site);

- and horrified by how a surge during a night dive (a storm was then whipping the surface) nearly slammed me into a bed of sea urchins (I had a vision of being a human pin cushion).

While waiting for my turn to get back on the boat, at different times, I've been spooked by: jelly fish, an anchor drop, propeller blades starting to turn.

Sounds like you need to find a different dive operator. The DM should be smarter than that, they should call off a dive when a storm is whipping at the surface, and under no circumstances should they be dropping an anchor or starting the prop. blades when divers are in the water!!!!! This is REALLY bad!