Yup, and realistically recreational divers aren't going to die just because they're diving a Zeagle Ranger. Plastic snaps on their webbing won't kill them either. Neither will bungee wings of death. I've also yet to see a recreational fatality where the preference for an AI computer over an SPG was directly implicated. What most divers need is better gas management and dive planning, practicing mask clearing and s-drills, better buoyancy control and trim and anti-silting kicks would really help. That is what the original poster was looking for in a "DIR lite" kind of class. Pulling out the "holistic approach" and "all or nothing" arguments are entirely correct dogma but contribute nothing useful to the discussion that the OP was starting and only serve to make DIR look bad to the rest of the world. If you want to talk about *my* diving and pull out the "holistic approach" stuff it would make sense, but not the OPs diving. The whole world does not have to be DIR compliant down to the location of the wetnotes in the correct pocket to dive safely. But the idea that a lot of what DIR has borrowed over the years would be useful if more widely borrowed by recreational divers I think is obvious.
