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[Scubasteve78_old]

Was wondering where i can get some DIR info ..i'm not very familiar with DIR i'm guessing its a standarized set of dive equipment requirments??

 

[Uncle Pug]

Originally posted by Scubasteve78
Was wondering where i can get some DIR info ..i'm not very familiar with DIR i'm guessing its a standarized set of dive equipment requirments??

Much more than you guessed.

From the source:

The orgin of DIR
http://www.wkpp.org

The only offical DIR training agency
http://www.gue.com/

 

[TexasMike]

Uncle Pug forgot to mention that through the GUE website (www.gue.com) you can also purchase the book on the Fundamentals of DIR (not sure if that's the official title, but you get the idea).

Look on their products page.

While I don't have my copy yet, many others here have said very good things about it.

 

[Campana]

is "Doing it Right, The Fundamentals of Better Diving", by Jarrod Jablonski. Very neat little book, all divers should read this one.

 

[roakey]

You'll find a ton of DIR links in the following post:

http://www.scubaboard.com/t5636/s.html

Roak

 

[Scubasteve78_old]

Thanks for everyones replys looks like i have some good reading to do ...thanks
Nathan

 

[trymixdiver]

I read it a week ago, some good info in there. A must read for any diver.

Andy

 

[MikeS]

I just bought the book "Doing it Right, The Fundamentals of Better Diving", by Jarrod Jablonski at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...279176/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-7698371-0076026.

It’s a great read if you take the all or nothing mentality with a grain of salt. What I did like is the fact that it presents an equipment configuration without ANY ambiguity. It has some very good ideas that I’ll looking forward to trying out as time and money allows.

 

[Lost Yooper]

I agree, the DIRF book is great. Here's some links that I hand out to those interested:

www.gue.com
www.wkpp.org
http://www.sfdj.com/dive/dir1.htm -- Download both DIR 1 and DIR 3. This is good stuff.
http://wrolf.net/index.html -- Scroll down and read all the hogarthian and DIR stuff.
http://www.fifthd.com/divestore/classes/video/ -- Compilation of videos showing some DIR procedures and drills in action.
http://gue.com/equipment/backplate6.html -- Backplate Illustration
http://www.gasdiving.co.uk/pages/misc/kit/harness_2.htm -- Webbing a harness.
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/gmism/gmiindex.htm -- DIR FAQ
http://www.tekdyk.dk/doux/UK/setup.htm -- WKPP Doux de Coly
http://www.dis-uk.org/index1.html -- DIR UK
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/other/dirshops.htm -- List of DIR shops.
http://www.halcyon.net/ -- Halcyon
http://www.extreme-exposure.com/ -- EE
http://www.lloydbaileysscuba.com/ -- Lloyd Bailey’s Scuba
http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/text/HOGARTH3.TXT -- Hogarthian article by Billy Williams
http://h2oadventuregear.com/ -- DIR Shop

Good luck.

Mike

 

[Scubasteve78_old]

I will probably go ahead and read this book just on name alone ..The Fundamentals of Better Diving", which means to me "Safer Diving"which is something i strive for with myself as well as my fellow divers....but on the other hand i do not Tech Dive nor Do I cave dive and seeing as i don't plan on doing either of these in the future it seems like most of the equipment idealogy doesn't apply to me ......<is DIR directed towards these two types of diving exclusively???> A 7 foot Reg hose while spear fishing in the gulf in 60 feet of water?? Just wouldn't make sense to me ..but I still have alot of reading to do ..thanks again

nathan