JT2
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After recently watching "Dreamchasers" again for the fifth time, I came up with a question for all of the DIR and other long hose breathing folks(myself included). What is the DIR way of handling OOA situations when using FFM's? I realize that the particular GUE diver in the "Dreamchaser" video was willing to break at least two DIR rules i.e. (diving with strokes, and sidemounting), I do realize that supposedly DIR is coming up with a way to dive sidemounts, so maybe that wasn't breaking the rules but I must also say that the big wing taco was absolutely hilarious, and this from the people who preach streamlining. Oh well, back to my original question, how do you properly handle OOA situations when everyone is wearing FFM's? It seems like it would be quite a CF. I personally have no desire to dive a FFM but it does interest somewhat and I know there are people who do dive them and I would like to know what proper procedures are, does anybody know?
Now let me say that before someone flames me for thinking I am trying to make fun of the GUE diver in the "Dreamchasers" video or DIR in anyway, I am not. I am slowly but surely configuring my gear to their exact specifications and I can't wait to take a DIRF class in the near future and I am hoping that they will have another class in Texas within the next few months so that I can. Seeing the video has in fact even strengthened my feeling about the DIR style of diving in that it showed me that they do in reality have some flexability, and an example of that is the guy in the video chose to dive with those other folks even though they were by DIR definitions "strokes". Even though the GUE guy knew that the people he would be diving with didn't subscribe to the same kind of diving philosophy, he recognized that they were all extremely compotent divers and their methods, although different from his, worked very well in the environments that they were all diving in and he chose to dive with them and was even openminded enough to try and learn something from them. He did not display the type of attitude and bullheadedness that most people would have you believe DIR divers all have, and for that, my hat is off to him as the type of atitude he showed was truly professional and would certainly be better accepted than most others I have met.
PS Did ya'll notice that even though his wing was tacoed and he was in gear totally unfamiliar to him that he still had better trim than anyone else, that was pretty cool!
Now let me say that before someone flames me for thinking I am trying to make fun of the GUE diver in the "Dreamchasers" video or DIR in anyway, I am not. I am slowly but surely configuring my gear to their exact specifications and I can't wait to take a DIRF class in the near future and I am hoping that they will have another class in Texas within the next few months so that I can. Seeing the video has in fact even strengthened my feeling about the DIR style of diving in that it showed me that they do in reality have some flexability, and an example of that is the guy in the video chose to dive with those other folks even though they were by DIR definitions "strokes". Even though the GUE guy knew that the people he would be diving with didn't subscribe to the same kind of diving philosophy, he recognized that they were all extremely compotent divers and their methods, although different from his, worked very well in the environments that they were all diving in and he chose to dive with them and was even openminded enough to try and learn something from them. He did not display the type of attitude and bullheadedness that most people would have you believe DIR divers all have, and for that, my hat is off to him as the type of atitude he showed was truly professional and would certainly be better accepted than most others I have met.
PS Did ya'll notice that even though his wing was tacoed and he was in gear totally unfamiliar to him that he still had better trim than anyone else, that was pretty cool!
