I agree but in reality this whole post thread is meant to be a joke right? I didn't take it that OP was being serious with his question?
Which is exactly why I’ve been following this for 9 pages! To see the responses has been wonderful.
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I agree but in reality this whole post thread is meant to be a joke right? I didn't take it that OP was being serious with his question?
Look up Dunning-Kruger on Wikipedia.On another thread one instructor said the students who were the harshest on themselves were generally better than the students who thought they had done perfectly.
I guess I missed the memo where the “dir manual” says you can only have one cutting device.I think scuba diving like most sports resembles martial arts quite closely. there is lots of different styles and techniques and opinions and lots of persons who claim that there is only one "right way" to do things. also some open minded persons who understand the pros and cons of every technique and training and equipment setup and may borrow things from multiple styles to suit specific needs and will change the technique/setup immediately if needed.
the common thing in all martial arts being good balance and coordination and understanding the center of gravity and how human body moves around it efficiently. (in scuba diving--->buoyancy control and finning techniques)
approaches vary because the different styles have been developed for different uses ( for example street fighting vs. Japanese feodal wars) ....
one can not really say which scuba technique or equipment configuration is "RIGHT" without knowing the specific situation where it will be used and the person using it.
one of the fundamental issues of especially new DIR divers, I think, is specifically the attitude that 'there is only one safe and efficient equipment configuration for all possible diving scenarios and that is the basic Hogarthian rig with nothing extra added'
I personally think that it is a sign of a bad diver to strictly follow the manual and not think things through by yourself. I think that is specifically how people get hurt in the first place... not thinking with your own brain but just doing something other persons have said before without them knowing the situation you will be in. the whole DOING IT RIGHT vs. STROKE UNSAFE SILT KICKING DIVER thing is partially about it.
just heard about a tech diver who got in serious trouble on a deep wreck dive because he only had ONE cutting tool with him (as per DIR manual) . that is not a situation where a 'thinking self-reliant diver' would or should end up in the first place
maybe the problem is just that people WANT to be fundamentalists and WANT to believe that there is ONLY ONE unconditional truth about diving and nothing else.
I personally don't think that diving should be a religious thing but for some people it seems to be very important. and maybe it is totally OK when thinking about it
if they end up dying because they lost the only cutting tool they had? why not, at least they died happily FOR THEIR RELIGION and I don't dive with that kind of strokes anyway so should not bother me as long as they don't come to burn my "almost DIR but not exactly by the manual" gear
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Want to be an ELITE DIVER?
go save some lives or find some new historically important wrecks or explore new cave systems so that we can better understand the history of the planet.
forget about one truth about diving and do something useful with your life instead
And you can always change to base jumping or wingsuit flying if you need lots of adrenaline and admiration and want to be a star. Diving is more about exploring the water realm and being there, relaxed, seeing and experiencing thing otherwise unavailable to human being. Being "ELITE" is about being better than anyone else which fits very poorly to scuba diving and there is lots of better hobbies than this if the main goal is just to brag about your achievements and how badass you are
Equipment Configuration | Global Underwater ExplorersI guess I missed the memo where the “dir manual” says you can only have one cutting device.
I’ve read that once or twice. Still not seeing where it says to only carry one cutting device.
Not the "purists" who learned it on the internet.I guess I missed the memo where the “dir manual” says you can only have one cutting device.
Dir guys have been putting shears in their pockets and extra knives on their Goodman handles for decades.