Who is responsible if a diver runs low on air during a supervised AOWD training dive in the Maldives?

Experienced divers point out that if it was a diver's first-ever dive to 30m as part of AOWD certification, the student is not at fault at all — monitoring air supply and condition is entirely the instructor's job, not the student's.

A diver shared that during their very first 30m dive they miscalculated air consumption (which increases with depth); the instructor quickly handed over the backup regulator (octopus) and the group surfaced properly with a safety stop.

Another chat member stressed this was a serious instructor error: by diving standards, once any single diver in the group hits 50 bar remaining, the whole group must begin ascent with a safety stop — running completely out of air at 14 meters should never have happened.