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Believe it.
The agencies today make certification too easy. Everybody passes. Eventually, we all hope, with experience will come skills.
My pet peave is seeing over weighted divers. Over weighting affects buoyancy control and gas consumption among other skills. Mostly though, it puts the person in an upright or almost upright position where the fins drag and kick the bottom, damaging the reefs (here).
Sadly, it is the BCD, that enables people to overweight. (couple more shots of gas in the bladder and I'm good to go. Right?) I see them often hanging like puppets pedalling away. Instructor's don't spend enough time on this skill IMO.
If you look a t a lot of folks' pictures even here on this site, it looks like they are riding bikes. That because they are over weighted.
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Tim 
Diving sucks. Don't try it.
They called themselves Guerrilla Divers.
Composed of elite divers with Macho mentalities, back when men were men, and FEAR was a lispy companion of the common Man. It was a time before insurance liabilities, lawsuits or beauracratic regulation of the "sport".
Guerrilla divers didn't need "Buoyancy Compensator Vests". In fact, "Anyone who needs a BC deserves to drown" was a popular adage.
Exploration and the Hunt came first, excitement and fun followed. Safety was the stepchild of fitness, good reflexes and a cool head.
This was a time of great Adventure.
HELP SUDS and Wounded Soldiers learn to DIVE!
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