Is sidemount DIR

[DevonDiver]

I thought DIR was kinda black and white? It is, or isn't...

If I'm reading this right.. the emphasis has now changed from being a dogma/philosophy... into mere a name for a particular backmount configuration? (and associated team/planning/contingency protocols).

Given the advantages of SM.... is that configuration now the 'real' DIR.... and backmount is now DIW? (less optimal)?

 

[Gilldiver]

The terms DIR, Do It Right, Tech, Tek, etc.no longer have any defined meaning, they have been denigrated into Marketing terms only, that is if they even meant anything in particular originally.

In the spirit of your question, you need to look at your training philosophy (GUE, TDT, DWW, NAUI Tech, Northeast wreck diver, Florida cave diver, etc.) and see what works for you, your dive buddy(s)/team, and then decide if it is what you, and they, want to do.
The world is never Black & White, and diving has always been in the grey zone.

 

[Scott L]

I thought DIR was kinda black and white? It is, or isn't...

If I'm reading this right.. the emphasis has now changed from being a dogma/philosophy... into mere a name for a particular backmount configuration? (and associated team/planning/contingency protocols).

Given the advantages of SM.... is that configuration now the 'real' DIR.... and backmount is now DIW? (less optimal)?

For the past 15 years or so, only Jarrod Jablonski could definitively answer questions pertaining to DIR adherence. Not sure why we are asking each other the very same questions on a routine basis.

 

[PfcAJ]

I thought DIR was kinda black and white? It is, or isn't...

If I'm reading this right.. the emphasis has now changed from being a dogma/philosophy... into mere a name for a particular backmount configuration? (and associated team/planning/contingency protocols).

Given the advantages of SM.... is that configuration now the 'real' DIR.... and backmount is now DIW? (less optimal)?

Advantages<disadvantages. No.

 

[Teller]

I am not trying to advertise BM or SM but can someone please tell me what all these disadvantages to sidemount are. I am curious to know.

 

[rlynch]

Not to be a pest but i'd actually like to know what the Advatages to sidemount everyone keeps raving about other than not carrying all your tanks at the same time are and moving your inwater profile from a vertical (i.e. spare) to a horizontal wide plane.
I get you can squeeze into lower places i just see that as a specific tool that is generally not required for 98% of the dives done. And when weighed with the added complexity of diving side mount i.e. independant doubles with reg switches, 2 spg's to check, a single reg or hose failure deprives you of 1/2 your gas, no standadization in the configuration, etc. i'm personally not seeing any real advantages to sidemount.
I know sidemount adhearants are shouting the advantages from the roof tops, i just don't get it though. And since were in DIR world here, that is just fine.....

 

[LiteHedded]

Not to be a pest but i'd actually like to know what the Advatages to sidemount everyone keeps raving about other than not carrying all your tanks at the same time are and moving your inwater profile from a vertical (i.e. spare) to a horizontal wide plane.
I get you can squeeze into lower places i just see that as a specific tool that is generally not required for 98% of the dives done. And when weighed with the added complexity of diving side mount i.e. independant doubles with reg switches, 2 spg's to check, a single reg or hose failure deprives you of 1/2 your gas, no standadization in the configuration, etc. i'm personally not seeing any real advantages to sidemount.
I know sidemount adhearants are shouting the advantages from the roof tops, i just don't get it though. And since were in DIR world here, that is just fine.....

I see it exactly the same way as you do. a very useful tool but plenty of disadvantages to be sure

 

[Kevrumbo]

Not to be a pest but i'd actually like to know what the Advatages to sidemount everyone keeps raving about other than not carrying all your tanks at the same time are and moving your inwater profile from a vertical (i.e. spare) to a horizontal wide plane.
I get you can squeeze into lower places i just see that as a specific tool that is generally not required for 98% of the dives done. And when weighed with the added complexity of diving side mount i.e. independant doubles with reg switches, 2 spg's to check, a single reg or hose failure deprives you of 1/2 your gas, no standadization in the configuration, etc. i'm personally not seeing any real advantages to sidemount.
I know sidemount adhearants are shouting the advantages from the roof tops, i just don't get it though. And since were in DIR world here, that is just fine.....

Fundamental long hose dir/hogarthian technique has you ALWAYS breathing the long hose primary regulator on bottom mix, unless you've just donated to an out-of-gas buddy. In sidemount Z-system, the virtue of the distribution block is that you never have to switch out regs as you alternate breathing off of left & right tanks --i.e. alternating between shutting down one tank valve and opening the other in Z-system sidemount diving, you are always breathing the primary long hose regulator.

As a traveling Tech Wreck diver to some remote dive site, I don't need to lug valves, manifold & bands to assemble a set of back mount doubles if the overseas dive ops only supports single AL80 tanks.

 

[PfcAJ]

Oh here we go with the z system. It's even worse than regular side mount.

 

[Kevrumbo]

Oh here we go with the z system. It's even worse than regular side mount.

Works for me and is viable for mixed team diving (SM, BM and CCR) within the UTD system.