PADI/NAUI Issues with DIR Techniques?

[StSomewhere]

Might check out the new class structure that 5thd-x is working on/offering - including a new class call "essentials" (go to the X-Education link, then "classes")

Thanks Tim!

 

[grazie42]

The original question: I took PADI rescue with BP/w & longhose and the instructor was grateful that I did so that he could expose the other students to it...He was diving "shop" gear for the class though he dived HOG on his own time...So (to keep beating that horse) you would be ok with DIR in a PADI class by a good instructor...

Someone mentioned the DIR-f book...I just finished reading it (curiousity killed the...) but found nothing surprising in it at all. Even the references to bondage wings and how smoking will kill you were in there. Except for the specific expectations for divers of varying skill levels, I found nothing really useful in the entire book. To me it was a waste of money...

Don´t know if there was a point in there somewhere but there you go...

 

[ranger979]

Anyone who would drive from Minnesota to Seattle to take a scuba class would be considered a highly motivated diver by anyone's definition of the term ...

FWIW - DIR F is an intensive 3-day class and costs about $300 ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I would have expected it to be more. Of course, I would still have the problem of not having the right gear. Maybe another trip to Seattle is in order.

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I would have expected it to be more. Of course, I would still have the problem of not having the right gear. Maybe another trip to Seattle is in order.

Whenever you're ready ... I've got all the spare gear you'd need to take the class ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Rec Diver]

Sadly, I've ran into some dive instructors that questioned the safety of a REC diver wearing a TEC rig.
Mark

Why did they consider a BPW, long hose, and bungied second as a TEC rig?

 

[rigdiver]

Does anyone have any perspective on how the major certifying agencies like PADI or NAUI view certain DIR techniques, especially using the 7 foot primary hose and donating the primary regulator? Intellectually I find this technique to make tremendous sense and am planning to adopt this myself, but I wonder if I will run into issues in my next levels of training (like Rescue Diver certification).

Not a single NAUI Instructor should have a problem with a BP/wing and 7' hose. Nothing in NAUI standards exclude this. In fact for NAUI tec this is what's recommended from the start. NAUI Tec suggests hard BP from the start.
Certainly in a rescue class the instructor should incorporate many points of view as well as equipment configurations. When a true rescue is made you never know what kind of equip. you'll be dealing with. One of my favorite scenarios was to wear a HP steel 120 cu ft cylinder and have a rescue student do a full recovery of me. I've had students turn me every which way but loose looking for a wt. belt that was not there. They just knew I'd hidden the wt belt somewhere.
I now dive most of the time Hogarthian rigged(single or doubles.) The 7' hose is easy enough to stow. Now throw in a rebreather????????????
Bill Childers R.N. NAUI 5709L C.D.

 

[Rec Diver]

... sometimes I think people forget to emphasize that this whole thing is about fun, relaxed, efficient diving!

It would be nice if more people had this additude!