DIR in Southern Oregon

[HarryWhisman]

Where does one have to go to get DIR training? There are three dive shops here. Two don't know what DIR is and the third--well let's just say they don't cater to technical divers. Do you have to travel to the big city or what?:06:

 

[PerroneFord]

GUE (the training organization that trains DIR divers) has a VERY small footprint in the diving world. So you can either go to them, or you can pay them to come to you (so I hear) if you have enough to make a class worthwhile. I'd imagine you being where you are, you could get trainnig over in Portland or Seattle. Or you might think of heading further south to the warm waters for a long weekend of training.

Best of luck.

 

[Adobo]

5thd-x (www.5thd-x.com) is based out of Northern California. Their instructors travel however for you, it might be more cost effective to plan a long weekend in Monterey where 5thd-x offers their "local" classes.

 

[TSandM]

Steve White, the GUE instructor who did our Fundies, indicated a willingness to travel to do classes -- he offered to go over to Spokane and do one for some friends of Rick Inman's. He needs a place to stay and a minimum of three students, I think, but you'd have to talk to him to be sure.

 

[PerroneFord]

FifthD-X is not GUE and is not DIR. At least not in the strict sense. Perhaps that matters to the original poster. Perhaps not.

 

[TekDiveGirl]

FifthD-X is not GUE and is not DIR. At least not in the strict sense. Perhaps that matters to the original poster. Perhaps not.

Hrmm -- on their class schedule they offer GUE Fundamentals and they have DIR plastered all over it.

So it seems like they are GUE in the whatever sence you want to call it.

Kimber

 

[PerroneFord]

Comments withdrwawn.

 

[Derek S]

Well, Delia M. and Joe T. are still GUE instructors:

http://www.gue.com/info/instruct.shtml

Yet another example why GUE needs to lose the DIR moniker. It's become too generic and convoluted.

 

[Adobo]

FifthD-X is not GUE and is not DIR. At least not in the strict sense. Perhaps that matters to the original poster. Perhaps not.

First of all, Joe Talavera (http://gue.com/info/resumes/talavera.html) and Delia Milliron (http://gue.com/info/resumes/dmilliron.shtml) are in GUE's instructor database. Joe is a full time instructor who does most of 5thd-x rec level training. However, this bit of trivia only answers the question, "are 5thd-x instructors certified to teach GUE rec classes?"

The question that the poster is asking is something fundamentally different. That question is, "where can one go for DIR training?" As you know, the other primary figure in 5thd-x, Andrew Georgitsis, has a long history with DIR and GUE. Though Andrew no longer has a relationship with GUE (as I understand it), IMHO, it would be inappropriate to characterize his diving philosophy and the diving community that he and 5thd-x are building to be anything other than DIR. And WRT tech diving, it would be incredibly difficult to find instructors in the west coast more qualified and accomplished as the gang at 5thd-x.

 

[JeffG]

FifthD-X is not GUE and is not DIR.

and the Myth gets perpetuated.