DIR-F Report Posted

[Halthron]

The report of the July 1-4 Anilao DIR-F class can be found here. I figured it would be better for pasaways to have a non-DIR threat to make any comments in.

 

[Mike Veitch]

WHat? we dir it all the time...

 

[Mike Veitch]

oh sorry.. i meant stir it all the time... please do a search on posts by a poster with name Paolov....

 

[chip104]

I <3 Dir

 

[*Floater*]

Congratulations on passing Halthron. Tell me, would you recommend interested people take DIRF as early as possible, like the person with 12 dives did, or wait longer before going for it? Did you acquire a cannister light in time?

 

[Halthron]

I think that it will vary from person to person. Not that people won't learn a lot of the lectures and demos but the guy with 12 spent a lot of time wandering all over. My control was probably good enough after about 40 dives, someone else could probably take it sooner but lack of control would result in less value for the course.

The replacement test tube came in time but I didn't have enough time to practice with it, beyond the dives we did. Since I didn't have the extra time, I opted to deal with the equipment I was comfortable with rather than changing the way I dive to accomodate a HID at the last minute.

Edit: Fixing typos

 

[paolov]

please do a search on posts by a poster with name Paolov....

me again "ako na naman..."

i have nothing against DIR as a matter of fact i support DIR, DIR are the MAN ! (from the phrase , "you're Da man" )

its the DIR-F that has the problems.... the puppies..... they feel that after graduating from DIR-F they are the best in the world.... that is becasue... little knowledge is dangerous... but those who move up to Tech 1 and over ARE DA MAN !


but still. WKPP team who goes deep and returns are the MAN ! the rest ....... tralalalalalallalala......

but at any rate dive as they will......

where is George I. ..... haven't read any of his papers lately...


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[limeyx]

Congratulations on passing Halthron. Tell me, would you recommend interested people take DIRF as early as possible, like the person with 12 dives did, or wait longer before going for it? Did you acquire a cannister light in time?

I took it at 40, my buddy at 36 or so. We had one person in our class take it at dive 26.

Realistically it's going to be hard to pass at those amounts of dives unless you've been coached by someone who really knows this stuff (as my buddy and I were). If I had shown up with 40 dives and tried to pass, it would have been miserable.

However, the diver with 26 dives came with a great attitude, did not pass the class but did come back and pass it later and probably had a much easier time than by waiting and learning bad habits.

So I'd say yes, as long as you take it to learn and improve and not necessarily to pass, go for it. Remember that if you learn from it, go in with an open mind, every dive you do after the class, you will be a little bit closer to where you want to be.

Of course, it's easy to show up, then not practice the skills and end up going backward too ...

 

[Twomixdiver]

The replacement test tube came in time but I didn't have enough time to practice with it, beyond the dives we did. Since I didn't have the extra time, I opted to deal with the equipment I was comfortable with rather than changing the way I dive to accomodate a HID at the last minute.

I've been put off buying an HID light because of it's high acquisition and maintenance cost.

Knowing what you know now about HID's, would you recommend them to others?

 

[greatwolf]

Great report Halthron.