JeffG
Contributor
No need. I believe you are 100% right. We know that on this board there wouldn't be anybody like that, but on rec.scuba they are all over
Can you be DIR if you are not GUE-trained?
- Thread starter King Kong Matt
- Start date
Please register or login
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
- Ability to post and comment on topics and discussions.
- A Free photo gallery to share your dive photos with the world.
- You can make this box go away
No need. I believe you are 100% right. We know that on this board there wouldn't be anybody like that, but on rec.scuba they are all over
..dont forget money O-ring.
I prefer to be a self-proclaimed DIW specialist.
I prefer to be a self-proclaimed DIW specialist.
That's what I was told. Actually what I was told is the number of DIRF grads who went into tech 1 or cave 1 and weren't ready was a problem.
I wonder if they were worried about the reputation they would get from all the divers seen wiggling around trying to go backwards telling people it's DIR. I'll bet some folks were under the impression it that DIR is some kind of medical term. LOL
I think there is a lot of wisdom in your statement. It probably totally scared them. I know it would scare me too if I was branding and marketing an elite dive training organization. I mean, anyone regardless of skill level can enroll and take a DIRF...there is no pass/fail so anyone could come out the other end and start proclaiming themselves to be DIR without having any of the necessary traits to be truly DIR. Or as you more eloquently (and humorously) put it "a bunch of sleestacks wiggling around backwards claiming they are DIR"...
The mental image of that is priceless..
bwerb
Hoser/English Translator, eh
I keep hearing..."The Land of the Lost" theme song over and over again.
I have not yet taken my DIRF, I do not have a BP/Wings (yet) but I am doing everything I can to be a "DIR" diver in terms of my dive planning, health outlook, skills practice, long-hose set-up, etc. I do look at it as a "holistic" approach and am doing all I can to encorporate the ideas into my diving.
Once I have a GUE tech 1 certification and my buddy does too, then I think that we can actually start calling ourselves DIR. For now, we are just apprentices "doing it as close as we can".
Just my thought for myself.
I have not yet taken my DIRF, I do not have a BP/Wings (yet) but I am doing everything I can to be a "DIR" diver in terms of my dive planning, health outlook, skills practice, long-hose set-up, etc. I do look at it as a "holistic" approach and am doing all I can to encorporate the ideas into my diving.
Once I have a GUE tech 1 certification and my buddy does too, then I think that we can actually start calling ourselves DIR. For now, we are just apprentices "doing it as close as we can".
Just my thought for myself.
Chickdiver makes an excellent point...even GI3 hasn't taken a GUE course and if you told him he wasn't DIR you might not be long for this world...
I give up...someone post it over on quest and tell me what happens
I give up...someone post it over on quest and tell me what happens
I will never have a long hose setup! 
Didn't you order one of those pumps?jepuskar once bubbled...
I will never have a long hose setup!
OP
King Kong Matt
Contributor
I think there are some obvious exceptions that probably go without saying...
The question was meant to refer to a new diver. Someone picks up diving today...joins the board and learns about DIR...what then?
Dunno...I think you can study and learn what DIR as a system is without GUE and you can configure your equipment that way. This process is much easier if you have GUE trained buddies. GUE definitely makes the process faster/better though..
Here's another one to stir the pot...can you be DIR even though you don't adopt one or two things? Like, let's say you dive air on 60' dives or you dive off Northeast boats that shackle the wreck..
Similar threads
