DIR Doing Their Thang!

[GDI]

:doctor: To all the DIR and non DIR divers out there! I dive a Zeagle BP and wings (of course my wings with redundant bladder is custom with a prototype BP panel) I have a Zeagle drysuit and original Zeagle Apeks regs Heck I'm the Zeagle poster child (Please Note I do not use their fins and they know it) Dacor Mask but I do have a Zeagle as back up. Example - By the equipment comments of the DIR idealism for example I do not dive DIR. Because My harness has quick release buckles on the shoulders.These could be a breaking point. OK so can straps break if poorly maintained. Does DIR consider those people who have had shoulder injuries and kitting up difficulties with using a strap harness. Having more than 10K logged dives, most of which is overhead I have yet to see a diver lose a tank set short of a tank falling out of loose tank bands, could it happen I suppose it could worst case scenario. My long hose is very easily deployable, I have been told my rig is very clean. Yet you would say I'm not DIR. As I said before I am sure I will learn something if I took a DIR-F class. So what are the skills they review in the DIR teachings?

 

[detroit diver]

:doctor: You keep making this an agency thing, why? Who is to say that a good instructor of another agency would not cover all the skills and criteria that GUE teaches

They might. But how would you know that?

 

[O-ring]

:doctor: To all the DIR and non DIR divers out there! I dive a Zeagle BP and wings (of course my wings with redundant bladder is custom with a prototype BP panel) I have a Zeagle drysuit and original Zeagle Apeks regs Heck I'm the Zeagle poster child (Please Note I do not use their fins and they know it) Dacor Mask but I do have a Zeagle as back up. Example - By the equipment comments of the DIR idealism for example I do not dive DIR. Because My harness has quick release buckles on the shoulders.These could be a breaking point. OK so can straps break if poorly maintained. Does DIR consider those people who have had shoulder injuries and kitting up difficulties with using a strap harness. Having more than 10K logged dives, most of which is overhead I have yet to see a diver lose a tank set short of a tank falling out of loose tank bands, could it happen I suppose it could worst case scenario. My long hose is very easily deployable, I have been told my rig is very clean. Yet you would say I'm not DIR. As I said before I am sure I will learn something if I took a DIR-F class. So what are the skills they review in the DIR teachings?

Yeah, you will learn something if you take the class.

 

[detroit diver]

That doesn't help your case either.


You said the only way to be DIR is to either

• Hold a GUE card
• have taken DIR-F before they issued cards
• be a member of the WKPP

and my point is that this is ridiculous. Please explain to me why you must satisfy at least one of those requirements in order to be DIR.

Let's see. By some remote possibility that someone taught the exact same equivalent of a DIR class, you could be right. I think that that possiblity is very remote at best. Remember, this is a holistic system. You can't teach pieces of it.

How would someone dive DIR if they were not taught to dive DIR? And who would teach them if not for my examples? Please don't say they would learn it on the internet.

 

[detroit diver]

Probably Canadian Extreme...I have two of those myself.

Yes, that's them. Nice quality lights. Weird orange glow to them, though.

 

[O-ring]

Yes, that's them. Nice quality lights. Weird orange glow to them, though.

You have the "Sting" models...they glow orange when strokes are nearby..

 

[detroit diver]

:doctor: To all the DIR and non DIR divers out there! I dive a Zeagle BP and wings (of course my wings with redundant bladder is custom with a prototype BP panel) I have a Zeagle drysuit and original Zeagle Apeks regs Heck I'm the Zeagle poster child (Please Note I do not use their fins and they know it) Dacor Mask but I do have a Zeagle as back up. Example - By the equipment comments of the DIR idealism for example I do not dive DIR. Because My harness has quick release buckles on the shoulders.These could be a breaking point. OK so can straps break if poorly maintained. Does DIR consider those people who have had shoulder injuries and kitting up difficulties with using a strap harness. Having more than 10K logged dives, most of which is overhead I have yet to see a diver lose a tank set short of a tank falling out of loose tank bands, could it happen I suppose it could worst case scenario. My long hose is very easily deployable, I have been told my rig is very clean. Yet you would say I'm not DIR. As I said before I am sure I will learn something if I took a DIR-F class. So what are the skills they review in the DIR teachings?

GDI,

Equipment is just a small part of DIR. That's what most people focus on.

 

[detroit diver]

You have the "Sting" models...they glow orange when strokes are nearby..

I think at least 2 of my dive buddies would take offense to that! Both are GUE instructors.

 

[O-ring]

I think at least 2 of my dive buddies would take offense to that! Both are GUE instructors.

Maybe GDI was in the water lurking...

 

[cornfed]

How would someone dive DIR if they were not taught to dive DIR? And who would teach them if not for my examples? Please don't say they would learn it on the internet.

LOL, you're too much for me DD.