Don Burke
Contributor
USMC Diver once bubbled...
Just one question...
Why are DIR divers obsessed by What If....
Do they have that many incidents beneath water that they have to completly change their way of thinking?
As a matter of fact, there have been. DIR was an outgrowth of massive problems in the WKPP and assorted tech deaths.
I've got a list of over a hundred people who have died technical diving.
Maybe we need to go back to the basics.
If you are so paranoid...don't go diving. You could sit on your couch with a 50 foot hose leading to out doors. Never run out of air...
DIR Response, "What if you air hose has a kink, you need an alternate duck taped to your forehead and 8 alt air tanks around each thigh...?
Actually, it would be a double tank, double regulator system that would give the diver the best chance of surviving equipment problems. If you tried to run your tank getup past someone in GUE, they'd laugh in your face.
Really, accept the risk. It is kind of what makes etreme sports, well, extreme. They have danger. If I wanted to make cave diving completly safe I would rent a Submarine.
DIR Resonse, "What if the sub gets stuck.......
Actually the essense of Hogarthian diving, of which DIR is a subset, is to minimize the amount of equipment used and get as much reliability out of it as possible.
I've got a little bit of experience with rented submarines. I'll stick with Apeks regulators if I'm shallower than 200 feet.
Just curious
DIR sounds like a good idea, but why are the enthusiast such ****'s about it...Geez...this is a recreational sport...not combat!
USMC DIVER
You apparently know little about DIR other than that you don't like DIR commandos.
Well, I don't like them either, but I don't have to make up weird questions and answers.
You had to manufacture a strawman argument to attempt to make a case. I'm _really_ curious about that.
This was actually calming down before the fiction started.
Thanks.