Disadvantages of DIR ?

[Viscya]

You can visit any time Viscya... but you can only dive DP a couple times a year and come out smiling.

Damn UP, I feel like this is a right of man hood. I would be honored to join you. Do you have any recommend times? I'd like to come out smiling, but some how, I'm thinking I'd just be happy to come out. This brings up memories of man eating barnacles.

 

[jbd]

It sounds like a lot of them have been quite successful at it as well. At the end of the day fundamentals are just that. Fundamental skills. The things that you get divers comfortable with to allow you to build skill subsets on top of. These skills are, in my opinion, better learned by a diver with NO preconcieved notions of supposed right or wrong or previously learned sketchy skills.

This has got to be the most intelligent thing I have read on the internet about plain old basic diving skills. Bravo d33ps1x

I recently DM'd an open water class for a local "DIR" shop that does GUE instruction as well and it was great to see divers in their first pool sessions doing the skills required of them in their OW class while in a horizontal hover. Watching them mimic their instructors frog kicking and body posture was a sight to see. No hand sculling at all! Just by starting on the right foot they looked better in the water on their first day then I looked on my 50th dive.

In short. It is more than possible. It is done every day.

I will add to this by saying that it is so much easier to do than many people think it is. The big pay off IMHO is during the OW cert dives when you get to actually dive with your students instead of hope and pray they flounder through their skills just enough to pass.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Well... we could just chuck you off the bridge any old time... but the best day/time for a more favorable outcome is Saturday March 19, 2005 at 9am. Current swing is *predicted* to only be 6.1 kts and a 9am entry on the last of the flood takes you in at .8 kt and brings you back out at 10am on the beginning of the ebb at 1.6 kts... hopefully.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Hey... I think D6andJBD are trying to Hijack this thread into a meaningful discussion!!!

 

[bwerb]

So UP...we sure about the tide tables this time...first photo kinda looks like our dive which was a tad off...it is isn't it...

 

[Viscya]

Well... we could just chuck you off the bridge any old time... but the best day/time for a more favorable outcome is Saturday March 19, 2005 at 9am. Current swing is *predicted* to only be 6.1 kts and a 9am entry on the last of the flood takes you in at .8 kt and brings you back out at 10am on the beginning of the ebb at 1.6 kts... hopefully.

Where do I sign up?

 

[Uncle Pug]

our dive which was a tad off

I think the timing was seriously affected by the near gale blowing down the Strait of Juan de Fuca pushing against all that water and causing it to stack up at the East end.

We won't know until 0' dark thirty the morning of the 19th just what the exact timing will be.

Viscya: actually it isn't a right of manhood at all... girls do it too.

Really it is just a cold water weenie dive. The real fun is riding the whirlpools in your drysuit at max ebb (at least 7.5 kts to get the good whirlies.) March 31, 2006 at 7am looks to be a good one for getting below the event horizon with a max ebb of 8.5 kts.

 

[jbd]

Hey... I think D6andJBD are trying to Hijack this thread into a meaningful discussion!!!

:11: What!?!?!? a meaningful discusion on the internet :11:

Surely you jest kind sir :jestera:

 

[d33ps1x]

Hey... I think D6andJBD are trying to Hijack this thread into a meaningful discussion!!!

No one has ever accused me of that before!

 

[Snowbear]

...Saturday March 19, 2005 at 9am...

Yo, Pug - If the weenies chicken out can I take their place?