Whats wrong with DIR

[detroit diver]

And herein lies one of the problems.

A question about DIR is being answered by someone who is admittedly NOT DIR, and has never taken a DIR class. But he is answering as if he knows.

Let someone who actually has the answers take a shot at the question. Internet DIR can be very different from the real thing.

Genesis once bubbled...
There's no way that spearing in those conditions could be done as "DIR".

Among other things, a unified dive team by their definition means that you can rely on your buddy at all times for an instant gas infusion.

Second, spearfishing, from what I understand, instantly brands you as a "stroke" among the DIR crowd. At least it has among those who have thought that perhaps I was inclined to lean that way (based on seeing my gear configuration) until the speargun came out

Let's see.... should I care about being called a "stroke", or would I like to shoot myself some dinner.... gee, tough decision - NOT!

I don't know about the rig diving stuff you guys do over there. I'm up for the spearing, but I'm not at all sure I like the idea of shooting 40+lb fish in what amounts to a bottomless, obstruction/entanglement-filled environment. In that environment I certainly understand the use of the "riding rig" you've propounded upon a few times.....

 

[FredT]

I don't.

I adoped what made sense of the DIR philosophy for the diving I do, then ignored the rest as non-applicable.

Hey, Mike DID ask for suggestions.

FT

 

[O-ring]

FredT once bubbled...
I don't.

I adoped what made sense of the DIR philosophy for the diving I do, then ignored the rest as non-applicable.

Hey, Mike DID ask for suggestions.

FT

Makes sense to me...if you are doing certain types of diving the system just doesn't fit then you obviously can't use it. I still think the stuff in Fontova's book was some of the best dive related reading I have ever experienced. I was laughing so hard on the subway people were looking at me funny..

 

[FredT]

He probably toned the fishing way down to suit the publisher. Nobody who hasn't done it will believe what REALLY happens out there!

BTW I prefer the cajun dive skin (AKA Dickies coveralls) to the leisure suits.

 

[cornfed]

O-ring once bubbled...
...if it's DIR or not? You love to shoot fish and shooting fish on a rig is some of the most challenging stuff I have read about (Fontova's book)! Why does it matter if it is DIR or not...why try to fit it into a system that it obviously does not fit?

I've seen people try to jam a square peg in a round hole but it's pretty funny to see the square peg try to squeeze itself into one.

 

[Big-t-2538]

O-ring once bubbled...
I was laughing so hard on the subway people were looking at me funny..

What does that have to do with laughing?

 

[O-ring]

FredT once bubbled...
He probably toned the fishing way down to suit the publisher. Nobody who hasn't done it will believe what REALLY happens out there!

BTW I prefer the cajun dive skin (AKA Dickies coveralls) to the leisure suits.

I thought it was "toned up" for the book...toned down? Oh man..that's too much.

For those of you that haven't read it, "The Helldiver's Rodeo" by Humberto Fontova is the book I was talking about...excellent read.

 

[Genesis]

A couple of guys who spear with us once in a while over here in Destin have "participated" in rig spearfishing off Alabama, LA and Texas.

Some of the stories they have told, and they have the pictures of the fish to back up their bluster and BS, would raise the hair on the back of your head.

I've been invited over there to spear with them a couple of times, but I need to grow bigger stones first...... church-bell sized ought to be about right.

 

[doole]

detroit diver once bubbled...

Internet DIR can be very different from the real thing.

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And from a DIR diver's point of view, that is extremely fortunate, I would think.

 

[detroit diver]

doole once bubbled...


And from a DIR diver's point of view, that is extremely fortunate, I would think.

It's nice to be able to get the information out in the open, but the amount of mis-information is astounding.

The biggest problem, IMHO, (and this should be very obvious) is that DIR is boiled down to equipment configs on the 'net. It is so much more than that. But those that have not taken a GUE class sometimes take what they can understand-equipment- and believe that they know DIR. And they usually get the equipment issue wrong also!

There is a reason that just about everyone that has taken a GUE class is excited about it. For a very reasonable cost, the amount learned is huge. Almost to the man/woman, it is said that the class it the best money ever spent on diving instruction. That says a whole lot.

I got started, and couldn't stop.....sorry!