DIR-F in MA

[Northeastwrecks]

Strong personalities is an understatement.

I've been through DIR-F with mixed feelings about the instructor's technique, but with very positive impressions of the material.

Like O-Ring, I'd probably take the course again. I'm available pretty much anytime.

 

[large_diver]

Xoom,

MHK was one of the instructors for the DIRF that was held here in August.

Great instructor with a demanding, but reasonable attitude. He's also full of all kinds of interesting stories, especially if you take him out to dinner and feed him beer...;-)

-LD

 

[xoomboy]

Dinner and beers? Count me in!

Wouldn't you know it, my summer is already starting to get booked. Count out the weekends of August 16th and August 23rd for me. All other dates from June through September are still looking good, though.

Matt

 

[Jackie-O]

boy ! I got my drysuit last fall and had to take a course, but I keep trying to figure out whe DIR-F is. And the references to long hoses, well, that did it. Would someone please enlighten me? thanks

 

[xoomboy]

This is a good place to start:

http://www.gue.com/equipment/jj-hogarth.shtml

Basically, DIR is a methodology consisting of cave diving principles and practices that has evolved to the point where it is now being applied to all forms of scuba diving.

Matt

 

[Northeastwrecks]

DIR-F is the Doing It Right - Fundamentals course offered by Global Underwater Explorers (GUE). Essentially, it is a boot camp for those who wish to improve their diving. It prepares you for more advanced GUE training in cave, wreck or other technical diving. However, you need not be a tech diver, or even want to become one, in order to take DIR-F.

The reference to a long hose refers to GUE's recommended configuration, which calls for a 5 - 7 foot primary regulator hose and a backup regulator worn on a bungee around your neck and connected to the first stage by a short hose.

You can get more information at www.gue.com.

 

[isotope75]

How much does this class cost?
My suggestion for you wreck divers is to pool your money together and get 1 or 2 surface supplied masks like an EXO26 and a diver radio. You can get an umibilcal dive hose in any length you want and have surface comms. You can get a commercial diver to take you out and show you how to use it. Plenty of them in Boston.

You don't need any special cert to use it but if you try to use it to make money you need commercial training. You can use the mask in zero vis and silt mud is not a problem.
Diving in a confined space like a sunken ship or a cave is not like diving around a coral reef where you are not allowed to touch things. With a surface supplied set up you won't run out of air either. Being able to actually talk to someone while underwater will calm you.

Just keep yourself within the No D limits

 

[LUBOLD8431]

Where did that comment come from about a Surface Supplied mask???

I think I got lost in another thread again....

Someone please show me the way out, Im getting scared being all alone in the darkness that GUE has put all over the world...

 

[terrence]

I would be up for a dirf course most anytime.

- terrence

 

[capecodder]

I'd be up for it in the fall,,,,,,I would also cancel a dive trip nov. 8 if I could get into a dir-f course relatively close,, although I could travel too. keep me posted

buck