Please explain DIR to me...

[bwerb]

The primary is for me to donate...the longhose enables us to stay a reasonable distance apart regardless of the circumstances.

The secondary is always for ME...I don't need it to be any longer than from my tank to my mouth.

Since one of the other tenants of DIR is that you ALWAYS donate the primary...if I am on O2 or a stage, I would donate what I'm breathing...who knows what type or color reg it might be. The one with the bubbles coming out of it is what the OOA diver is going to breathe. The one under my chin is what I will switch too.

 

[Seabear70]

So, since you donate the longer hose, would it not be advisable to have that be easier to see?

What if your buddy drops it?

THe brighter colors make it easier for him to find and catch.

 

[WJL]

No, why a shorter hose on the octopus then on the primary?

I don't understand what this has to do with the color of the regulator or the hose.

And why dosn't everybody use bright colors on both of them?

There is no color requirement, because it doesn't matter. If you approach a DIR diver signalling that you are out of gas, that diver will give you the reg he or she is breathing, whatever color it is. If you want to use bright colors for your own regs and hoses, go ahead.

 

[roakey]

Rather than rehashing the stuff we've been over a dozen times already on this board, I suggest folks see:

http://www.scubaboard.com/t10022.html

Especially starting with reply #9, which is mine and though it's not in the DIR area of the board, describes the DIR reasoning and methodology behind the long hose, why we donate from our mouths, etc.

As for color, the only thing I'd avoid is a brightly colored backup reg. Make the OOA diver go for the one in your mouth, as s/he should.

Roak

 

[bwerb]

If it floats your boat...there is no "rule" on it. It's just that when you start dealing with multiple gasses and multiple bottles...the hard and fast rule is always that the one in your mouth gets given to your buddy regardless of what shade or permutation it might be.

If my buddy drops it...he simply reaches for the only hose which isn't stowed...now...if he's diving with any diver which you might see on TV...this one might be a bit tricky as every hose and their friends are dangling like an Portugese Man-o-war below...

 

[Seabear70]

My original point actually was that a lot of people are so obsessed with being DIR that they thik that making an adjustment like this based on common sense seems beyond them.

I like DIR, for the most part, just don't DIR to the point where you DIW.

 

[WJL]

So, since you donate the longer hose, would it not be advisable to have that be easier to see?

What if your buddy drops it?

THe brighter colors make it easier for him to find and catch.

I'm beginning to wonder if you've ever practiced dealing with a OOG situation.

If you are donating gas, you don't just fling your regulator in the general direction of the OOG diver and then see if they can catch it. Nor is the reg going off on a frolic and banter of its own, bopping around the ocean and requiring careful hunting to track down.

When you donate, you hold your reg right in front of the face of the OOG diver so they can see it and put it in their mouth. If they can't see a reg 6 inches from their face, then you are in vis so poor that it wouldn't matter how brightly colored the reg is.

 

[roakey]

I like DIR, for the most part, just don't DIR to the point where you DIW.

Example, please. I'm tiring of your vauge accusations...

Roak

 

[Seabear70]

Practiced, yes, I certainly have...

Furthermore, I have been in them, on the giving and recieving end. I went through the drill...

they didn't.

 

[bwerb]

Sorry, you didn't do a very good job if your point was to try to "illustrate" the "lemming like" attitude of the DIR diver's thought pattern. The long and short answer to your question (which started with a "I heard you can only have black regs"...nice troll btw as it's not something anyone who dives DIR would ever say if they had any clue whatsoever) was that the color of your regs MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. Paint yourself pink and dive DIR...you'll still donate the reg in your mouth. No one answered with any sort of "beyond common sense" reply, they answered your question with the logical answer.