and a whole lot of them have been deleted. Let's do an experiment.That's just silly. There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of posts jumping all over Put Another Dollar In's shortcomings, both imagined and real.
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and a whole lot of them have been deleted. Let's do an experiment.That's just silly. There are thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of posts jumping all over Put Another Dollar In's shortcomings, both imagined and real.
A lot of the people who hate on DIR diving do so because they haven't invested the time to make their personal skills match the amateur divers who are diving DIR, and because they have a vested interest in continuing to sell the products they're certified to teach. There are hordes of OW instructors who could not pass fundies at a recreational level, not because they're bad people, but because the dive shops that taught them are willfully ignorant since they can't teach or dive with that level of control. This means they don't have mentorship or expectations to improve their personal skills.
Same same...A LOT is not synonymous with all. You’re painting with a broad brush and your comments are representative of the very attitude that annoys many of us. You’re talking down about non dir divers’ skill (which may or may not be accurate) , you’re assuming their criticism must be coming from jealousy, you’re questioning their (financial) motives, and your making assumptions about their diving history.
Same same...
I'm honestly not sure if this is sarcasm, but it's pretty annoying to get lumped together with everyone eh?
Defense rests.
It's just the shoe on the other foot of every post that talks **** about DIR.Well, I was calling your post out explicitly
It all boils down to balanced rig philosophy, which is not limited to DIR diving. It's unsafe to carry all your weight on something that's ditchable.It seems that quite a few DIR divers did not watch the tapes as well. Because I well remember GUE-trained divers telling us strokes that ditchable weight was a sign of an unsafe diver. So we are at the beginning of this thread: Why do some people just roll their eyes and tune out when a DIR diver starts talking to them.
I pretty much discovered that years ago. I created a brief course (first a workshop, then an approved course) that taught the tech/DIR skills for recreational divers. There turned out to be pretty much no market for it. "Why do I need that?" was the general response.This also means that 99% of divers don't need and I would say 80% of divers don't want that level of training or skills.