Near-DIR diving: Are there DIR things you would probably never do?

[MXGratefulDiver]

Ahh the natives, Barry, the natives! See what you have caused?

What part of ...

Please do not answer questions with non-DIR answers

... do you not understand?

It's posted at the top of every page that appears in this forum.

This is a valid topic. It simply doesn't belong in this forum.

What do you suppose the reaction would be if a bunch of DIR folks showed up in the Solo Divers forum starting threads about why they wouldn't solo dive?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[*Floater*]

Some of the ideas explained to me on why wetnotes are to be preferred.

I have my wetnotes in the thigh pocket in addition to the wrist slate. It's just that they are a PITA to take out every 5 min to record the depth or the gas I have left when the dive is called or things like that. And I need one hand to hold the notes and the other to write so I have to clip my light head temporarily (or drape it if going non-DIR).

 

[Rainer]

I have my wetnotes in the thigh pocket in addition to the wrist slate. It's just that they are a PITA to take out every 5 min to record the depth or the gas I have left when the dive is called or things like that. And I need one hand to hold the notes and the other to write so I have to clip my light head temporarily (or drape it if going non-DIR).

Practice. It makes diving easier.

 

[KMD]

I have my wetnotes in the thigh pocket in addition to the wrist slate. It's just that they are a PITA to take out every 5 min to record the depth or the gas I have left when the dive is called or things like that. And I need one hand to hold the notes and the other to write so I have to clip my light head temporarily (or drape it if going non-DIR).

And what does DIR say about subsituting equipment for skill?

 

[SparticleBrane]

How are you going to pass from the mouth with a FFM?
Don't get me wrong -- I've done dives with FFMs before and they might be nice for certain things, but they're not DIR. And since this is the DIR forum...

 

[*Floater*]

You are the classic example of what the mean old word stroke was intended to convey. You have been provided with the information and whys of how the DIR system works but refuse to do it that way. That is fine, just stop coming to this forum and asking for someone to validate your ideas which, from a DIR perspective, are stupid.

Yeah, classic sense of stroke alright. See that's why the word became so controversial. On the one hand DIR divers say it just means an unsafe diver, but then when someone shows up with a wrist slate you call him a stroke.

Tell me, if one of your (ex-)DIR buddies showed up for a tech dive with a wrist slate and refused to take it off, would you call the dive?

 

[*Floater*]

Practice. It makes diving easier.

No matter how much you practice the wrist slate is always going to be the better solution for some situations than wetnotes. Or at least I have yet to hear a credible argument why it is not.

 

[Rainer]

No matter how much you practice the wrist slate is always going to be the better solution for some situations than wetnotes. Or at least I have yet to hear a credible argument why it is not.

Sorry, but a wristslate is never going to be so much better that I need to bring it AND wetnotes. The latter will do just fine. It cracks me up that you think you need both.

 

[rhlee]

No matter how much you practice the wrist slate is always going to be the better solution for some situations than wetnotes. Or at least I have yet to hear a credible argument why it is not.

kmd just gave you 9, but hey, we hear what we want to hear....

 

[Doc Intrepid]

What part of ...

... do you not understand?

It's posted at the top of every page that appears in this forum.

This is a valid topic. It simply doesn't belong in this forum.

What do you suppose the reaction would be if a bunch of DIR folks showed up in the Solo Divers forum starting threads about why they wouldn't solo dive?

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Bob,

You're right.

It's a valid topic, and from the OP's opening post it has violated the rules of the forum.

It's been moved to Hogarthian Diving forum.

Thanks,

Doc