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[O-ring]

I'll try to interpret again .

Viscya, most DIR people I know do NOT dive in the ocean or any environment that is at all challenging with someone they have not dived with and practiced with in a confined water or "easy" setting first (quarry, pool, shore dive, whatever). This whole showing up on the boat and then getting a buddy there or whatever is NOT DIR at all in any way shape or form and flies in the face of team diving, which is one of the core tenets of DIR.

You guys are still speaking different languages.

 

[Viscya]

I'll try to interpret again .

Viscya, most DIR people I know do NOT dive in the ocean or any environment that is at all challenging with someone they have not dived with and practiced with in a confined water or "easy" setting first (quarry, pool, shore dive, whatever). This whole showing up on the boat and then getting a buddy there or whatever is NOT DIR at all in any way shape or form and flies in the face of team diving, which is one of the core tenets of DIR.

You guys are still speaking different languages.

My mistake!! I do appologize. I thought we were talking diving.

 

[O-ring]

My mistake!! I do appologize. I thought we were talking diving.

We are, but your kind of diving sounds dangerously reckless to someone that is very particular about whom they dive with and do not dive if they can't get one of their regular buddies to dive with them. It's a big pain to get it going, but once you start diving in a team format you won't ever want to go back to "willy nilly" diving with any old buddy on the boat.

 

[cornfed]

I figured out where I was by the responses I received.

Have you read this...

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?threadid=45143&s=

or this (specifically point number 6)?

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?threadid=43458&s=

 

[Viscya]

We are, but your kind of diving sounds dangerously reckless to someone that is very particular about whom they dive with and do not dive if they can't get one of their regular buddies to dive with them. It's a big pain to get it going, but once you start diving in a team format you won't ever want to go back to "willy nilly" diving with any old buddy on the boat.

I hear yah. I perfer to dive with a know good buddy. Unfortunately, they don't dive as often.

Quick question: Do DIR divers spearfish, or go after lobster? How about video? What do you do in that environment? How do you do that as a team?

 

[Viscya]

Have you read this...

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?threadid=45143&s=

or this (specifically point number 6)?

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?threadid=43458&s=

Sorry,
I guess that preclues asking questions about why.

 

[cornfed]

You guys are still speaking different languages.

And in all fairness, I'm acting like the stereotypical frenchman who speaks english but insists on talking to you in french.

 

[Soggy]

I hear yah. I perfer to dive with a know good buddy. Unfortunately, they don't dive as often.

Quick question: Do DIR divers spearfish, or go after lobster? How about video? What do you do in that environment? How do you do that as a team?

I love to go for lobster. We do it as a team, though. And there is plenty of DIR video out there....like in every GUE class...it's one of the main pedagogical techniques used.

 

[cornfed]

I guess that preclues asking questions about why.

By no means does it preclude you from asking why. What it precludes is arguing because you don't want to understand the background or because you enjoy the ensuing flame war. You question about spearfishing, etc. is completely valid. It's just off topic.

 

[Soggy]

Sorry,
I guess that preclues asking questions about why.

No, "Why" is the most important question you can ask. *Everything* in DIR has been extremely well thought out and understanding why is very integral to the system.