-hh
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Zippsy,
Sorry for missing your thread, but the basic answer to your question is that everything will always depend on your specific and unique needs and what benefit you'll get out of it. If the cost:benefit ratio isn't good enough for you, then you should have absolutely no guilt for not buying the product/service.
And while it very well may be true that a fresh OW-I graduate isn't a great diver and would get the greatest benefit out of additional training, this is a bit of a lame excuse because we're not all OW-I novices: we're all at different levels within our diving skill sets, and with different performance needs because we're not all going out to join the WKPP exploration team...and this is where the concept of one-size-fits-all has to take a hit.
When it comes to me personally with DIR, I've been diving for long enough to know very well what my diving environment is, what its risk level is, and what my performance levels are. As such, I can assess what, if any, performance gain would result from what, and if it would result in a more enjoyable dive, or an incrementally safer dive. IMO, for my situations, they will not be all that great, so as such, its a high cost with low benefit, or not a particularly good value for me personally.
FWIW, there are also a very significant cultural attitude that I also see often with my work, and there, it sends up serious warning flags. It doesn't mean that I'll adamately refuse all of their claims and ideas, but what it does mean is that I will only trust that which I've independently evaluated and verified its actual value and relevance to my needs...and in this regards, I treat DIR no differently than PADI or any other entity.
-hh
Sorry for missing your thread, but the basic answer to your question is that everything will always depend on your specific and unique needs and what benefit you'll get out of it. If the cost:benefit ratio isn't good enough for you, then you should have absolutely no guilt for not buying the product/service.
And while it very well may be true that a fresh OW-I graduate isn't a great diver and would get the greatest benefit out of additional training, this is a bit of a lame excuse because we're not all OW-I novices: we're all at different levels within our diving skill sets, and with different performance needs because we're not all going out to join the WKPP exploration team...and this is where the concept of one-size-fits-all has to take a hit.
When it comes to me personally with DIR, I've been diving for long enough to know very well what my diving environment is, what its risk level is, and what my performance levels are. As such, I can assess what, if any, performance gain would result from what, and if it would result in a more enjoyable dive, or an incrementally safer dive. IMO, for my situations, they will not be all that great, so as such, its a high cost with low benefit, or not a particularly good value for me personally.
FWIW, there are also a very significant cultural attitude that I also see often with my work, and there, it sends up serious warning flags. It doesn't mean that I'll adamately refuse all of their claims and ideas, but what it does mean is that I will only trust that which I've independently evaluated and verified its actual value and relevance to my needs...and in this regards, I treat DIR no differently than PADI or any other entity.
-hh
