Jacques Cousteau, was he a DIR diver? why or why not?

[formula1mb@aol.com]

I'm fairly new to scubaboard here and can't help notice all the talk about dir diving. Got me to thinking, would Jacques Cousteau qualify as a dir diver? Looking back, he used a lot of pretty exotic equipment, 120 cu ft titanium tanks pumped to 5000 psi with yoke connections, triple tanks, etc.

Curious to see what people think, esp with a guy like Cousteau who's considered to be the king of diving.......

 

[Gombessa]

Got me to thinking, would Jacques Cousteau qualify as a dir diver? Looking back, he used a lot of pretty exotic equipment, 120 cu ft titanium tanks pumped to 5000 psi with yoke connections, triple tanks, etc.

Wow, makes me wonder exactly what you heard about DIR? Almost sounds like, "anything out of the normal."

I'd suggest starting with the stick at the top of the forum (here at http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/dir/44823-what-dir.html), which does a pretty good job explaining what DIR is and is not.

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

I get the idea of what it is, not asking that, just curious what people would think about Cousteau.

 

[captain]

I'm fairly new to scubaboard here and can't help notice all the talk about dir diving. Got me to thinking, would Jacques Cousteau qualify as a dir diver? Looking back, he used a lot of pretty exotic equipment, 120 cu ft titanium tanks pumped to 5000 psi with yoke connections, triple tanks, etc.

Curious to see what people think, esp with a guy like Cousteau who's considered to be the king of diving.......

About as far from DIR as I am from Mars

 

[Gombessa]

I get the idea of what it is, not asking that, just curious what people would think about Cousteau.

Hmm, well what's your take on whether Cousteau was DIR?

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

I didn't say he was or wasn't, curious to see what other's think and maybe learn a thing or two.

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

Just off the bat though, I'd say no: no redundant buoyancy i.e. no drysuit or even bcd for a long time, yoke tank connection, no secondary regulator, etc. I'm not an expert on his exact equipment and how it changed over time but those are some of the things I'd point out.

 

[UCFKnightDiver]

DIR is more of a mindset, though there are gear aspects to it, that's certainly not all or even most of it.

 

[formula1mb@aol.com]

I'm not looking to get philosophical about the whole DIR thing, just about Cousteau and opinions about his way of diving.

 

[Hyper-limits]

No he wasn't, but it doesn't matter he was a true pionner.

Al