Why NOT DIR?

[captain]

Where do you get this crap? Do you have ANY GUE training? Any basis whatsoever for this patently false statement? Seriously...

No I do not have DIR training and I don't know if the poster does but apparently for what ever reason the thought never occured to him that there was another way.

 

[Blackwood]

I would hate to rig up and then have to ask myself every time I dive if I am DIR compliant

No one does that. Unless you haphazardly grab random equipment and put it in random places, you know whether or not you are DIR "compliant." Pre-dive checks aren't for "compliance."

are the sitckers on my tank correct

Similarly, unless you regularly move the stickers around, they'll be in the right place.

is my entire dive locker properly stowed on my person

lol... I don't know where you people get this stuff. What one brings depends on the dive.

 

[Rainer]

Here of course

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3095333&postcount=21

Great, learning about DIR on the internet. That particular example has to do with a cave class not wanting weightbelts. That's quite fine, as very few people would need them in that case. For OW/SW diving, it's perfectly fine to wear a weightbelt. And AL backplates are just fine.

 

[Nemrod]

dumpster, I hear ya. I was at 130 last weekend and dropped off the bridge to near 150 and I did not have a team with me.

There is something about being totally alone that I just dig, eh! Hand me the Aqua Lung, I am going down.

N

 

[Rainer]

No I do not have DIR training and I don't know if the poster does but apparently for what ever reason the thought never occured to him that there was another way.

What you are missing is that it's a perfectly DIR way...

 

[Land Locked]

That would be non-DIR?

My pasty white legs causes the team to loose focus, they tend to laugh their arses off at the stroke that thinks he is a diver which causes their sac rate to increase!
Oh well, they can a least see me in low vis!!

 

[texdiveguy]

dumpster, I hear ya. I was at 130 last weekend and dropped off the bridge to near 150 and I did not have a team with me.

There is something about being totally alone that I just dig, eh! Hand me the Aqua Lung, I am going down.

N

Yep same bridge!!!

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~earlyyrs/schwyhart/kimberlingcitybridges.html

 

[Blackwood]

My pasty white legs causes the team to loose focus, they tend to laugh their arses off at the stroke that thinks he is a diver which causes their sac rate to increase!
Oh well, they can a least see me in low vis!!

LOL.

My legs are at least as white, but they're covered up.

Can't see 'em here, but they're pretty much the same color as the rest of me.

 

[Nemrod]

Blackwood, what sort of yellow regulator is that because I want one. N

 

[Dan Gibson]

But it's the wave of the future

Actually I was referencing the bold part in this post:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3095367&postcount=22

You know the most basic DIR concept; a heavy backplate

Apparently we missed that in class.

Great, learning about DIR on the internet. That particular example has to do with a cave class not wanting weightbelts. That's quite fine, as very few people would need them in that case. For OW/SW diving, it's perfectly fine to wear a weightbelt. And AL backplates are just fine.