Oh dear. It’s so easy to offend the groupthink that is frequently seen here on ScubaBoard.
I don’t think BP/Ws are the godsend a vocal minority would have you believe. Nor do I think long hoses are needed for recreational divers, or PADI sucks, or that Spare Air is odious. I almost always wear my snorkel, and usually use Force Fins but sometimes Morfins or splits or paddles. I’m against MOF (but not for the panic illogic). I don’t care if your or my snorkel and/or mask has a purge. Also don’t care if you or I dive BP/W, poodle, vintage, sidemount, or whatever. Or if you donate your primary and/or use a combination LPI/alternate.
The structure of GUE or DIR or “team” diving are fine for those who want it or whose personality goes that way, but just aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, especially if all you’re doing are benign recreational dives. I don’t care if you use rock bottom, or the rule of thirds, or only monitor your gauge. Just be safe.
I don’t care (much) if you call fins flippers, or a mask goggles, or a cylinder a tank or bottle. Or even if you say two-tank dive when you mean two dives, not a dive with doubles.
And no, you don’t need tables to learn decompression theory.
These all have their pros and cons, and are personal preferences, or options, or opinions. Just because an opinion is repeated ad nauseam and with emphasis doesn’t make it right. It’s still just an opinion.
Why won’t more people think for themselves? Read and talk and research, but make your own choices. Find your own level of risk-management comfort.
Groupthink can evolve into political correctness which is another term for intellectual bullying, except that it’s often not very intellectual, and frequently more sheep-like than bullish. baaaaa
Get over me. Get over yourselves.
I cherish your right to your opinion, however misguided. < wink >
Suggest, explain, even cajole, but don’t try to force your opinions on me.
Let’s just enjoy our amazing sport (or activity if you prefer).
< rambling rant over > < unless I missed a sacred cow >
I don’t think BP/Ws are the godsend a vocal minority would have you believe. Nor do I think long hoses are needed for recreational divers, or PADI sucks, or that Spare Air is odious. I almost always wear my snorkel, and usually use Force Fins but sometimes Morfins or splits or paddles. I’m against MOF (but not for the panic illogic). I don’t care if your or my snorkel and/or mask has a purge. Also don’t care if you or I dive BP/W, poodle, vintage, sidemount, or whatever. Or if you donate your primary and/or use a combination LPI/alternate.
The structure of GUE or DIR or “team” diving are fine for those who want it or whose personality goes that way, but just aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, especially if all you’re doing are benign recreational dives. I don’t care if you use rock bottom, or the rule of thirds, or only monitor your gauge. Just be safe.
I don’t care (much) if you call fins flippers, or a mask goggles, or a cylinder a tank or bottle. Or even if you say two-tank dive when you mean two dives, not a dive with doubles.
And no, you don’t need tables to learn decompression theory.
These all have their pros and cons, and are personal preferences, or options, or opinions. Just because an opinion is repeated ad nauseam and with emphasis doesn’t make it right. It’s still just an opinion.
Why won’t more people think for themselves? Read and talk and research, but make your own choices. Find your own level of risk-management comfort.
Groupthink can evolve into political correctness which is another term for intellectual bullying, except that it’s often not very intellectual, and frequently more sheep-like than bullish. baaaaa
Get over me. Get over yourselves.
I cherish your right to your opinion, however misguided. < wink >
Suggest, explain, even cajole, but don’t try to force your opinions on me.
Let’s just enjoy our amazing sport (or activity if you prefer).
< rambling rant over > < unless I missed a sacred cow >