DIR vs Hogarthian

[chrpai]

If I had a dollar for everytime I heard "Because that's the way we've always done it, Marine".......

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

OR he was really clumsilly saying. "hey FOCUS on what you are learning now not stuff that has no relevance here and now"

Considerably more likely he was saying "we don't sell that here" ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[danvolker]

You'd be amazed how annoyed some of my friends in the local dive shops get when they see me diving with my Dive R freediving fins....it is annoying enough that the fins are really bright and huge and stand out ( can't be missed), and way more annoying in what they do to all the divers in a group I swim through----there the divers are with their new fins---like a bunch of new owners of the $30,000 sports cars in-vogue now, out for a cruise on some nice s-turns ....and a Ferrari or Lamborghini shreds through the pack at twice the speed and 5 times the precision and this is pretty much what the Dive R's on a diver in a group look like, for the ease of navigating around a reef or wreck in a drift current.

So the dive shops really are not fond of me wearing my DiveR's around their divers

 

[Superlyte27]

One thing I keep reading is that Bill Hogarth Main is still alive and kicking and that he continues to refine his diving gear to this day. I'm unable to find any references to what those changes have been though. It seems like the definition of Hogarthian is frozen in time somewhere around 1990. Does anyone happen to know what the guy who came up with this configuration is diving today? Another relevant question would be why is he using his current set up? Does it have to do with injuries and age or has he come up with something he feels is better in the last couple decades. Also, is it significantly different than what we think of as Hogarthian?

Excellent question. I will take a closer look next time I see him.

 

[diveTO]

Another option for the OP would be to do GUE primer. It's a great entry point for new divers and experienced divers new to the GUE style of diving.

 

[Doppler]

One thing I keep reading is that Bill Hogarth Main is still alive and kicking and that he continues to refine his diving gear to this day. I'm unable to find any references to what those changes have been though. It seems like the definition of Hogarthian is frozen in time somewhere around 1990. Does anyone happen to know what the guy who came up with this configuration is diving today? Another relevant question would be why is he using his current set up? Does it have to do with injuries and age or has he come up with something he feels is better in the last couple decades. Also, is it significantly different than what we think of as Hogarthian?

Edd Sorenson told me that he got Bill in a sidemount rig a few months back... go figure.

 

[elmer fudd]

Edd Sorenson told me that he got Bill in a sidemount rig a few months back... go figure.

From everything I've read, he's a guy that likes to experiment with his gear a lot, so I'm not sure that trying out a sidemount rig would amount to a conversion.

 

[boulderjohn]

Edd Sorenson told me that he got Bill in a sidemount rig a few months back... go figure.

Really? Edd told me in March that Bill was his Holy Grail for Sidemount conversions, and it hadn't happened yet. It must have been a sudden whim.

 

[DevonDiver]

...Bill was his Holy Grail for Sidemount conversions.

So... if Bill did convert to sidemount... and adopted/devised a particular configuration, that'd mean "hogarthian" was now................. oh!

 

[DaleC]

It brings up the question whether one considers the concept of using a rig in it's most basic yet functional form Hogarthian or whether one considers only the BW/W with long and bungeed hoses as defined as Hogarthian. Destination vs process.