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D.I.R. (Do It Right) was first created by the Woodville Karst Plain Project. WKPP had experienced a series of preventable fatalities, and created the DIR philosophy in order to increase safety in the most extreme cave diving being done to date. One of the basic tenets was gear placement and rigging. This was done because the WKPP might have 10 or more divers working in a spring on the same day. If everyone carried their equipment on the same place on their body, and the cylinders gas markings were standardized for all tanks used by all divers, that eliminated several major accident problems. It's not that putting your knife on the right, or making the tank's MOD marking be 3" black letters on a white background is the ONLY way to do it. It's that making EVERY diver a duplicate of every other diver, allows each diver to know EXACTLY where another diver's equipment is located, and to perform vital safety checks during the dive. DIR may go "a bit" far for open water, no deco sport diving. But it does teach the importance of being able to locate EACH piece of your buddy's equipment as if it were your own.
