[gwilson]

I think what he is trying to say is more people seem to dive at inland sites than in the sea, then when it comes to diving in the salty stuff they might find themselves outside of their comfort zone...................

Regarding Gloc, Garf and Howards offer of an mentoring / insight into DIR diving I dont think this applies.

For example. Me, I live in Glasgow im interested in DIR / GUE which is why Im prepared to drive a pretty long way to gain an insight into how it works, to get a few pointers in ensuring my kit is set up correctly and to actually meet a group of people who dive this way as they are thin on the ground up here (and tie in a visit to my family), before i do fundies later on in the year.

Now if I drove the upto 10 hours or so down to the south coast to find out the weather was bad and there was no way of getting wet id be kinda pissed off. Therefore the idea of meeting at an inland site is ideal even though ive never dived an inland site im sure your not that likely to get blown out.

Just my thoughts behind the reasoning as to why its inland and not in the sea.