Naive - Difference between DIR & hogarthian?

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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?
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.
 
Uncle Pug:
I think I will just backfin out of this one. Keep it clean and keep it civil is all I ask. Goodnight.
Backfin...the rest of us are still trying to do that
 
Uncle Pug:
I think I will just backfin out of this one. Keep it clean and keep it civil is all I ask. Goodnight.

Chicken.... :chicken:
 
Laurel,
If you've got questions about Deep Sea Supply, you could PM Tobin himself and ask. He's a great guy and I'm sure he can give you the info you need.

cool_hardware52

-Bill
 
JeffG,

Science 101: One can not prove a negative. My claims are self-evident.

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. 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...
 
BigboyDan:
JeffG,

Science 101: One can not prove a negative. My claims are self-evident.
LOL
BigboyDan:
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.
We recognise it in Alberta...you have just been proven wrong...Science 101

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.
Your opinion...no facts to back it up...(Hate to tell you GUE has been holding courses all around the world)

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...
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.

Well..I will listen to UP's advice...and I'm done....Sorry bedmund
 
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.

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?
 
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?
Similar Equipment. Its good to have consistancy....Lights in the same place...Knife in the same place...


For example...I have a buddy that dives a Mares Dragon Fly...I always have to ask him how the thing works.."just in case"...So similarity breeds familarity...which leads to "comfort" with your buddies gear...which leads to comfort in the water.
 
JeffG,

Your well-known Canadian sense of self-worth is evident in your posts - it's why we like you: you're even nice when you insult others. Of course, I'm a Texan, we are not nice when insulted. But, you're forgiven.

My opinions are based on real life experiences. My PADI DM card has even been turned down - twice in the Med and once in Chile; blew me away.

GUE is not taught in dive shops all around the world, it's not even taught in 95% of the USA; neither is SSI, NAUI, nor PADI.

By the way, 22C degrees here today, dove twice in Redfish Bay.
 
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