Why not DIR ?

[Derek S]

You seem much more intelligent and secure in yourself than to let a name feel like an attack on you or your diving.

And therein lies the crux of the argument. People get hung up over a name because it has the perception (whether overtly or not) of critiquing one's diving skill and gear choices. Nobody wants to feel like they didn't make the absolute 100% best choice for themselves the first time around.

Me myself, I could care less. Sure, I'd like to have the original monies back that I spent on that Seaquest stab jacket and Scubapro Air2, but I'm confident enough in myself to know that no gear or training is going to change who I am as a person.

For the record, I agree that DIR might not have been the best possible choices, but it is what was originally chosen. GUE has actually kind of been quietly moving away from that moniker for that very reason, and JJ even alludes to that on some of his writing on the GUE website.

 

[H2Andy]

I agree that DIR might not have been the best possible choices

i am willing to bet, though don't know for sure, that the DIR name was chosen
as an internal, team-limited term. i don't think they even imagined back
then that it would be marketed and "sold" to the general diving public.

the system was being developed within the WKPP team, and i can hear them
say it "C'mon, guys, let's do it right. We don't want any more deaths."
"Doing it Right" then became a team catchphrase... a way to get everybody
on the same page.

the DIR moniker stuck, and when GUE went "public" it sort of had to use it
by default (that's what the system was known as by that time, so...they
were kind of stuck with it)

but key in this is the understanding that "doing it right" was not comparing the
team to anybody else, but the new way of doing things for the team as
compared to the old way of doing things for the team.

taken out of that context, it does sound like it's a "team" vs. "rest of the world,"
description. i believe it came about as a "new team" vs. "old team" description,
limited to the new way of "doing it right" that WKPP was implementing.

 

[onfloat]

Actually the DIR stems from a news article. GI3 was asked how come they had such a good safety record at WKPP under his direction and he replied "Because we do it right." The article was titled "Doing it Right" and the name stuck.

 

[H2Andy]

would be sweet to find that article

also... i'm sure Irvine and JJ must speak somewhere about the
origins of the name itself... i just haven't been able to find it

 

[Diver Dennis]

Was it not in that article you posted a link for Andy?

 

[H2Andy]

no, unfortunately... he talks about the history of the system, but not the name itself

 

[Cacia]

well, if ya'll are pausing, I have a question. I forgot my weight belt... and I want to know if JJ would have let me dive today... I think the problem is I am under a lot of pressure to do things wrong. hey its early in Hawaii.

 

[onfloat]

well, if ya'll are pausing, I have a question. I forgot my weight belt... and I want to know if JJ would have let me dive today... I think the problem is I am under a lot of pressure to do things wrong.

If you could swim that up with out adding air to your wing, sure. (balanced rig concept, thought for another thread maybe.) I actually have two weight pockets that I keep on my cam bands that I use when I'm cold water diving. I'll bet the weight felt a little better distributed that way.

 

[Rick Inman]

NO!! That hanging dust cap will kill you dead!

eyebrow

 

[Cacia]

well, I had never done it before, but its kosher yes? Okay, thanks for stayin up you guys are all the conversation I get for seven months.