Being a new guy... I'd rather know what I was getting into. A bad dive buddy can really complicate matters.

One diver I dove with when it came time to turn, he just turned and ran over me towards the exit and was flutter kicking the whole way out..... No indication before hand that at the turn he would spazz.... Then he left me in the dust.... easily 100 feet+ in front of me, paying no attention to my light signals. When he realized I was not with him, he turned around and swam at me like a torpedo.... I tried to tell him to slow down, but once I returned the "OK" signal he turned around and flutter kicked like Michael Phelps again. We repeated this process all over again, and finally after a while when he realized that once again I was "lost" he slowed down so we could exit together.

Basically new guys like me don't need this type of ****, and I need to be MUCH more picky with who I dive with. Luckily, this was high flow and they didn't blow the place out.