Where has DIN been required?

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

I guess I'm a weirdo then because I moved to Greece and brought my yoke regulators with me. I carry DIN adapters in my took kit but haven't needed them as the local dive charters provide them.

Your comment that "serious diving is DIN" is ridiculous.

In my limited experience, I’ve never seen anyone use yoke on a stage, sidemount or rebreather cylinder. I very rarely see someone use a yoke with a twinset (or rather twindies) and usually that person looks like a clown underwater. I have seen single cylinder cold water divers occasionally use a yoke. Hence the comment about DIN being preferable for more serious or committing diving.

Obviously if I planned to only make easy guided dives in resorts etc. and especially in touristy areas, I would buy yoke.

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

Ah I see the problem. The only serious divers are those with more than one tank.

Got it.

I wrote more serious diving, not divers. Serious as in demanding, with serious consequences if something goes wrong.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Everyone on scubaboard dives DIN. And yet, somehow, 99% of the regs I see in Florida (outside of cave diving) are yoke. Yoke is clearly the "norm" (descriptively) for recreational diving, at least in the US.

If you’re on scubaboard and don’t dive DIN you suck and you’re a complete amateur doing sucky dives (which aren’t real dives because you’re not using DIN). Only DIN dives are real dives and anything involving yoke aren’t considered serious because that just old outdated crap for dinosaurs and any “real” diver would never be caught dead using yoke anything.
Wow!

 

[grantmac]

DIN is a better system which easily adapts to yoke.

Yoke is a good way to warn other divers that you might need help completing the dive.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

“Yoke is a good way to warn other divers that you might need help completing the dive.”

….and that you’re a complete rank amateur…

 

[happy-diver]

 

[Blackcrusader]

Everyone on scubaboard dives DIN. And yet, somehow, 99% of the regs I see in Florida (outside of cave diving) are yoke. Yoke is clearly the "norm" (descriptively) for recreational diving, at least in the US.

Yoke is normal for dive ops in Asia as well, but I have never had an issue with my DIN as all the ops simply remove the plug so I can use my DIN setup.