I'm not pro DIR or anti-DIR. Agree with alot and disagree with alot but I must admit that GUE trained as opposed to alot of other OW trained divers I've seen is a huge difference. Alot of guys are running people through OW so fast they develope no skills and I believe are a danger to themselves and others. I have seen Open Water go from an all encompassing scuba diving course to an underwater "breathing course". Seems alot of new guys I see can do little more than breath underwater. They are not comfortable, skilled or confident. It has really gotten bad the last couple years. Now I do know some PADI, NAUI instructors who are top notch and teach there students well. But as of late it seems there are 50 lame instructors to 1 good one. GUE seems to have gotten good quality control in place. While I dont agree with everything they promote, they are consistant and seem to produce the better skilled divers. I do believe you can get as good a training from a good instructor from any agency, but if your a new guy just getting wet how do you know who is good?That must be the agencies responsibility and many are dropping the ball.
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Uh....Donating the primay vs. donating the standard way by donating the octo or safe 2nd.
I'm sure there are more....But this has to be the dooozie.
Poor dead horse.....let's kick it one more time.
cornfed
Mindless lemming
In my NAUI class I was taught to donate my primary. We would either buddy breath (talk about non-standard) or switch to our backup (an AirII).
All together now,
"Sometimes I feel like I'm beatin' a dead horse"
I don't know how you can say that donating the primary is non-standard with so many recreational divers using Air 2 type devices.
If you put it that way then the standard way is to have a octo that dangles loose where no one could find it if they need it because I sure see a lot of divers and students diving that way. LOL
Teaching divers to be able to share air while maintaining buoyancy control and position is where they're deviating from standard (doing it on their knees) but I'd say that's a good thing. Of course GUE doesn't own the patent on that but judjing by how few teach it you'd think they did.
IndigoBlue
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At 19 months, and still going, this troll has put even the Eveready Bunny to shame.
Do You Have The Bunny Inside?
If you don't have anything better to do, and it seems like some of us don't, what's wrong with beating a dead horse?
Scott M
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Is there any way to link the LP vs LDs threads to this one? :boom:
As a matter of fact there is but it might get me moderated
Scott M
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LOL
You betcha! Personally they should have left seat belts in the race cars. There's NO PLACE for seatbelts in recreational vehicles. And after all, when some idiot proposed that they be put in normal cars, most emergency personel didn't know how to deal with some one trapped in a car in that technical gear!
Imagine how many lives would have been saved if we didn't take that techical stuff from the race cars and moved it into normal vehicles!
Oh wait, that reasoning is completely full of it, isn't it?
At least *I* can see that.
Roak
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