Please help me stop!

how do you feel about diving styles

  • There is only one true way to dive - I practice it.

    Votes: 10 6.6%
  • There is only one true way to dive - I do not practice it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • There are many ways to dive, but my style is superior.

    Votes: 22 14.5%
  • There are many ways to dive, and my style is not superior.

    Votes: 120 78.9%

  • Total voters
    152

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Crush

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First of all, those who are offended by this post will cite my limited number of dives - not that many. I live three and a half hours (yes, one way) from the nearest diveable body of water and was certified two years ago this coming Saturday, so I do the best I can. If the best retort you can offer is derision, well, I feel sorry for you.

Can anyone tell me how to stop pointing out that there is more than one way to dive? For example, I dive a (rear inflate) BC and am seriously thinking about BP/w, but BP/w-philes (for the most part) think that the only way to dive is BP/w - sure, your system may have advantages for you, but is it the only way to dive, especially if I am an OW diver? I dive with a slung pony bottle - that too is wrong, according to many vocal elements on SB, despite the fact that many certifying agencies recommend a Y-valve or pony for deep dives. Finally, while learning to hover horizontally has been a great benefit to my diving, I can't bite my tongue when someone posts "you should only dive horizontally."

Here is your chance - what do you think?
 
It's the diver, not the gear. Dive any configuration you wish, or like me, dive several - it's you, not the equipment, that makes the diver! Congratulations on your open minded thinking!
 
The best diving advice I've received is to have fun and enjoy it. So, anything I can learn and adapt to increase my fun is good technique. Someone's style is superior to mine if they're having more fun than me.
 
The only thing superior about my thinking is that I don't find any one ideology superior to any other. Dive and let dive. If you dig the water and can have a beer afterwards it was a good day.
 
There are many ways to skin a cat! It is about having fun and being safe! (Cat lovers, it is just a saying)
 
I don't care how or what you dive as long as you're safe and not a hazard to me. I'd never say my style is any better than anyone elses as I'm always looking to improve my diving techniques.

Happy and safe diving for everyone is what it's all about in my book.
 
Thanks for all the feedback, people. It seems to me that one vocal element on SB is now conspicuously absent, but I am glad to hear that I am not alone!
 
I think the real strength of a DIR type philosophy is that it relies on well trained divers acting as a team using reliable equipment that they all know and that is suited to the task at hand. I don't think its success really has anything to do with BPW's or 7' hoses.

If you and your buddy are both competent divers using good gear and watching out for each other, then you're doing it right too.
 
For example, I dive a (rear inflate) BC and am seriously thinking about BP/w, but BP/w-philes (for the most part) think that the only way to dive is BP/w - sure, your system may have advantages for you, but is it the only way to dive, especially if I am an OW diver?

I dive with a slung pony bottle - that too is wrong, according to many vocal elements on SB, despite the fact that many certifying agencies recommend a Y-valve or pony for deep dives.

Here is your chance - what do you think?

Some dives I'm an "OW diver" and I do this with BPW. Amusingly, one of my dive buddies in ON is an M Petryk, but I think a different M Petryk :D
Now when diving solo, I have a slung 30 or 40Alu.
 
I think the real strength of a DIR type philosophy is that it relies on well trained divers acting as a team using reliable equipment that they all know and that is suited to the task at hand. I don't think its success really has anything to do with BPW's or 7' hoses.

If you and your buddy are both competent divers using good gear and watching out for each other, then you're doing it right too.

elmer fudd, I agree with you. In a previous post at http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/5198193-post32.html I commented:

DIR and GUE are like the Marines - they leave no one behind. If you are one of them, they are the best dive buddies you could hope for - they follow the rules, they get things done, they know what to do and where to be, and they don't panic. Diving with a DIR/GUE buddy is probably the best safety insurance you could have.

However, I also posted in that same thread:

Since pony bottles are anti-DIR and anti-GUE, responses from them will be negative. You will also see than many of them are unable to conceive of any situation where DIR/GUE doesn't have all the answers.

Were that I were DIR/GUE, and were that I had regular DIR/GUE buddies that traveled with me, I would be truly fortunate. However, DIR/GUE reliance on a buddy and therefore, for example, the obviation of need for a pony fade when your insta-buddies start to drink between the dives.

FWIW, I dive with a long hose...
 

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