Michael Guerrero
Contributor
So it looks like I'm going to start down the cave training path and one of my instructors is emphasizing DIR. I've done a little reading on DIR, but I haven't participated in a training program that claimed to teach DIR diving/principles (at least I don't remember reading it in my TDI AN/DP classes).
So who determines what DIR really is? I know GUE has its system and I assume UTD does too. I don't know about IANTD or TDI, but if more than one agency claims to teach DIR, who is right and where do they get the authority to make such a claim?
As an example, who says what gases are "standard". If different training agencies differ on their system, can they still make the DIR claim because they have a system, standard, and philosophy that all their divers follow?
DIR seems more like a philosophy of standardization across configurations, procedures, and approach to diving while embracing Hogarthian minimalism. So if our DIR differs, which one of us is actually "Doing It Right"?
Thanks,
Mike
So who determines what DIR really is? I know GUE has its system and I assume UTD does too. I don't know about IANTD or TDI, but if more than one agency claims to teach DIR, who is right and where do they get the authority to make such a claim?
As an example, who says what gases are "standard". If different training agencies differ on their system, can they still make the DIR claim because they have a system, standard, and philosophy that all their divers follow?
DIR seems more like a philosophy of standardization across configurations, procedures, and approach to diving while embracing Hogarthian minimalism. So if our DIR differs, which one of us is actually "Doing It Right"?
Thanks,
Mike