I think I will just backfin out of this one. Keep it clean and keep it civil is all I ask. Goodnight.
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From what I see from the website...If you got a one piece harness (instead of what they show on the website) then you would be good to go.scubalaurel:Boys, big is good. Gentlemen are better!
Everyone calls me the blond, but I need you both to focus...My question is about gear. You both seem to be argueing the same point, that DIR is good. How about some argueing about my gear proposal?
Backfin...the rest of us are still trying to do thatUncle Pug:I think I will just backfin out of this one. Keep it clean and keep it civil is all I ask. Goodnight.
Uncle Pug:I think I will just backfin out of this one. Keep it clean and keep it civil is all I ask. Goodnight.
LOLBigboyDan:JeffG,
Science 101: One can not prove a negative. My claims are self-evident.
We recognise it in Alberta...you have just been proven wrong...Science 101BigboyDan:I'd rather be wreck, deep, night, rescue, mixed-air, etc. trained by an agency that will be recognised by some shop or DM when outside of Central Florida.
Your opinion...no facts to back it up...(Hate to tell you GUE has been holding courses all around the world)BigboyDan:Agency recognition around the world has been a complicated business for 50 years. I've been to places where a certain C-card will not be accepted at face value. In France they barely recognise PADI at all, and many DMs in the Med would rather see your dive log... GUE will have to earn their place in the industry as have PADI, NAUI, SSI, and the YMCA.
And then you do some back peddling and damage control....Just face it...you don't know what you are talking about...and you are a troll...You make claims...your "proof" is your opinion...and then you try to back out by saying "look at the big picture"....well...why do you say that...you have clearly missed it (the big picture) yourself.BigboyDan:It's just that Advanced courses in certain techniques are time consuming and expensive. Why have your Advanced card turned down because you received it by a regionally based quasi-agency instead of receiving it from an internationally known agency with thousands of similarly trained instructors offering an internationaly recognised training program? She wants advanced training. Fine. GUE offers exellent training; great, there are 50 other agencies doing the same. I'm just remarking that she should look at the big picture...
JeffG:From what I see from the website...If you got a one piece harness (instead of what they show on the website) then you would be good to go.
But a plate is a plate...there is no magic bullet...Its a chunk of metal that sits on you back. In the big scheme of life, its a pretty small part.
Similar Equipment. Its good to have consistancy....Lights in the same place...Knife in the same place...scubalaurel:Cool.
Bedmund, thanks. Tobin has actually already PM'd a couple of times. He going to see about making me a pad for the backplate. 'cuz I'm a woman and I like comfort.
Now, if I'm DIR, then my buddy would have to have the same equipment, right?