Why NOT DIR?

[Cave Diver]

Good grief... and you guys complain about the anti-DIR guys poo-ing up your threads...

No, that was mostly just me complaining.

Aren't you glad that I made this thread just for you?

 

[fweber]

Yes. I live in a city with lots of DIR/team divers, and I'm likely to move to other large metropolitan areas with lots of DIR/team divers. The "stranded on a desert island with all the scuba gear in the world and a solar-driven compressor that never breaks down" hypothetical is unlikely to occur to me.

Lamont,

You are fortunate. However, with the exception of the solar power(mine runs on electricity as expensive as that is here), for some of us the rest is not hypothetical.

 

[Adobo]

I feel real stupid asking this...but what is DIR?

Here is another extremely good resource:
http://www.dir-mexico.com/

These guys are only about 20 minutes away from Playa Del Carmen.

 

[John_B]

Here is another extremely good resource:
http://www.dir-mexico.com/

These guys are only about 20 minutes away from Playa Del Carmen.

I'm planning in the next year or so to do Cave 1 with those guys. My #1 diving goal in fact.

John

 

[Adobo]

I'm planning in the next year or so to do Cave 1 with those guys. My #1 diving goal in fact.

John

Cave diving is over-rated. It's just a bunch of wet rocks.

 

[OneBrightGator]

No, that was mostly just me complaining.

Aren't you glad that I made this thread just for you?

I've never learned more about DIR then what I have learned in the "Why Not DIR?" thread

 

[SparticleBrane]

DIR ran over my dog and kicked my mom.

 

[daniel f aleman]

"Why not DIR?"

Because there are better ways of instruction and diving protocols...

 

[amascuba]

"Why not DIR?"

Because there are better ways of instruction and diving protocols...

Care to elaborate on what you feel are better diving protocols and instruction?

 

[daniel f aleman]

Well for one, and this has got to hurt, NAUI Cave 1 and Cave 2 are state of the art in cave instruction curriculum.

Also, in cave instruction, GUE avoids CCR, sidemount and other types of cave protocols that are of need in certain cave diving profiles, IANTD offers training for such. Deep air training, solo diving, both GUE anathema. Goes on...