Carribeandiver
Guest
I am certainly not a qualified DIR diver but I am working toward that end. I took GUE DIR F two weekends ago and discovered I am approximately 17 lightyears away in skill but I am practicing and trying to 'do it right'.
I discovered GUE, got my gear and enrolled/took the course all within a 7 day period. Before that, I had already enrolled and paid for a NAUI Rescue course that started last night (Mar 5).
Last night in class, I saw what my GUE instructor was talking about, those people do things unsafe and they dont even know it. One of the discussions was getting back on the boat with the famous 700 psi rule. I asked, well what is your sac rate? What is your buddy's sac rate? Using the rule of thirds is a good plan because it allows enough gas for you and your buddy to safely return.
I got scoffed at, ridiculed, called the master of overkill. These people not only didnt know what their sac was, they didnt even know what the term was. The course instructor talked about mistakes and how, because he is busy worrying about students, he has jumped in without his fins on, once without his weightbelt on, once without turning on his gas...blah, blah. I said, why not do a complete equipment check with your buddy before jumping in? That idea didnt go too well and was thought to be silly. Once again, I got called master of overkill.
Anyway, the point of my story is, I find myself adopting all those great safety rules, trying to apply DIR techniques and philisophies and yet I am so incompetent that I can barely spell DIR let alone do it. Just the same, I know I aint going back to my "happy go lucky, good thing I am ignorant style of diving". And now, I am going diving with these people in the pool twice and in the Gulf of Mexico for 3 days (6 dives) and I can already see problems. I am going to try and be horizontal all the time and they are going to be vertical. Ascent drills are going to be interesting with that pose. Now, I can see why DIR divers prefer not to dive with non-DIR divers.
I could go on but you all know what I am talking about.
So, how do DIR divers handle diving with non-DIR divers? What do you do when non-DIR divers do things differently?
I discovered GUE, got my gear and enrolled/took the course all within a 7 day period. Before that, I had already enrolled and paid for a NAUI Rescue course that started last night (Mar 5).
Last night in class, I saw what my GUE instructor was talking about, those people do things unsafe and they dont even know it. One of the discussions was getting back on the boat with the famous 700 psi rule. I asked, well what is your sac rate? What is your buddy's sac rate? Using the rule of thirds is a good plan because it allows enough gas for you and your buddy to safely return.
I got scoffed at, ridiculed, called the master of overkill. These people not only didnt know what their sac was, they didnt even know what the term was. The course instructor talked about mistakes and how, because he is busy worrying about students, he has jumped in without his fins on, once without his weightbelt on, once without turning on his gas...blah, blah. I said, why not do a complete equipment check with your buddy before jumping in? That idea didnt go too well and was thought to be silly. Once again, I got called master of overkill.
Anyway, the point of my story is, I find myself adopting all those great safety rules, trying to apply DIR techniques and philisophies and yet I am so incompetent that I can barely spell DIR let alone do it. Just the same, I know I aint going back to my "happy go lucky, good thing I am ignorant style of diving". And now, I am going diving with these people in the pool twice and in the Gulf of Mexico for 3 days (6 dives) and I can already see problems. I am going to try and be horizontal all the time and they are going to be vertical. Ascent drills are going to be interesting with that pose. Now, I can see why DIR divers prefer not to dive with non-DIR divers.
I could go on but you all know what I am talking about.
So, how do DIR divers handle diving with non-DIR divers? What do you do when non-DIR divers do things differently?