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The number of people here defending the practice of exceeding MOD is appalling. Especially considering one of you is a "technical instructor". Shame on you.

Way too many people have died as a result of exceeding their gas's MOD. Plan your dive and dive your plan.

Can you quote the reasons for not using a dual bladder as it’s given in an official GUE publication? I seem to recall it being briefly mentioned in the old fundamentals book but not explained in a way that convinced me drysuits were any better an option. I’m more convinced now because of AJs...

Agreed.

Not solely.

Dry suits aren’t a requirement for technical diving in GUE. Only with steel tanks or if you can’t swim up double 80s. I’m not fighting or challenging answers. I was simply questioning a piece of our own dogma that had admittedly not made much sense to me. I liked the answer that isn’t about...

GUE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to exploration, conservation, and education. DIR is the philosophy the gear and protocols were built upon.

To get the perspective of others in the community maybe? I guess forgive me for not yet having heard an explanation that completely sold me? I didn’t know 4 courses meant you’re no longer supposed to have questions. And that if you do have a question you MUST ask an instructor instead of...

Yeah 4 courses in and still learning all the time. Are you not? Look dude, if I have a question I’ll decide where I want to ask it. You’re welcome to do question asking wherever and however you want as well.

And I've taken 4 gue courses.

I honestly just get tired of putting on a drysuit sometimes 😅 I don't dive a dual bladder wing. I dive compliant with the DIR philosophy because it's the only tried and true method that is also standardized within a community. This question was just kind of a "I know this is the standard but I...

I asked this here because I've not been entirely sold on the idea that a drysuit was any better a method of redundant buoyancy than a dual bladder wing but after this conversation I can see it. With heavy steel cylinders, stages, etc... trying to orally inflate a second bladder while in a...

That's a good explanation. I've been scratching my head over this. I can see where it would be very difficult to decide which wing is the leaking wing. Not a problem in a drysuit.

Honestly, what failure point exists on a diver in a wetsuit with a dual bladder wing that doesn't exist on a diver in a drysuit with a single bladder wing? Same number of inflation valves. Same number of dump valves.

Gus and woody are waaay too obsessed with Edd and Mike Young. Granted, the men are definitely legends. Nobody disputes that. But there are many other divers in the sport who are just as legendary who would ardently disagree with Edd or Mike on a lot of things.

TGDP is like a fine Bourbon. It's an acquired taste. The guys are pretty funny but more importantly they're saying what needs to be said about the industry. "Speaking truth to power" as liberals like to say. In regards to the question at hand, I think this thread is asking the wrong...

Anyone else here after the latest episode of The Great Dive Podcast? It's about this thread and it's honestly their best episode yet.