accidents on DIR community

[David C R]

Last week I was talking with a friend about dir diving and the gue stuff, basically I was telling him that dir diving points you to a safer diving, and into this point he ask me if I'm sure about that, if there are statistics about accidents rates on the dir community that can be compared with the commercial diving or something like that.
I realized I got no idea about any accident in this point, but I do regular know about accidents specially in Cozumel on the commercial diving community.

Someone have any information about?

 

[JeffG]

How about this. There is never any DIR accidents, because if someone got hurt...means that they were Doing It Wrong.


P.S. The closest you might get is to examine the WKPP record vs other projects.

 

[mikerault]

Yes but since the whole team was doing it the same way they all died so no one reported it....

 

[BarryNL]

Last week I was talking with a friend about dir diving and the gue stuff, basically I was telling him that dir diving points you to a safer diving, and into this point he ask me if I'm sure about that, if there are statistics about accidents rates on the dir community that can be compared with the commercial diving or something like that.
I realized I got no idea about any accident in this point, but I do regular know about accidents specially in Cozumel on the commercial diving community.

Someone have any information about?

I don't think it's worthwhile trying to compare DIR to commercial diving. Commercial divers have a whole support team working with them, onboard decompression chambers, full face masks with communication equipment - stuff that simply isn't affordable or practical in recreational diving. The question is, how does DIR compare to other ways of doing similar profile diving. The answer is: no-one collects those statistics. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better safety record than WKPP or EKPP though.

 

[b1gcountry]

From the OP's line about "Commercial accidents in Cozumel" I'm not convinced he means "Commercial Diving".

Do you mean the non-DIR Recreational Community, or Commercial Divers (ie, hardhat divers)?

 

[David C R]

From the OP's line about "Commercial accidents in Cozumel" I'm not convinced he means "Commercial Diving".

Do you mean the non-DIR Recreational Community, or Commercial Divers (ie, hardhat divers)?

Yes you're right sorry for the missunderstanding, I mean the non-dir Recreational community

 

[wreckchick]

With precisely zero real information, it would seem that many of the accidents we see would likely be prevented if people were following DIR protocols.

With that said, I think the bend rates are higher than anyone would like to admit on the bigger dives.

Rachel

 

[Capt Tom McCarthy]

I don't think it's worthwhile trying to compare DIR to commercial diving. Commercial divers have a whole support team working with them, onboard decompression chambers, full face masks with communication equipment - stuff that simply isn't affordable or practical in recreational diving.

Or even impossible in the case of cave diving.

 

[limeyx]

Or even impossible in the case of cave diving.

Support teams are in fact quite possible and for big dives quite a necessity in caves.

For examples, look at what the EKPP & WKPP are up to.

 

[Capt Tom McCarthy]

Support teams are in fact quite possible and for big dives quite a necessity in caves.

For examples, look at what the EKPP & WKPP are up to.

Oops, I probably should have edited the quote better. Support teams are definitely not impossible.