LOL. what a ridiculous thread. I do appreciate the irony though. A thread started simply to tell DIR divers they are not doing proper diving, IE Doing it Wrong. Fantastic
does this mean DIr divers are now free to start threads telling people they are not diving properly, or is it only acceptable for the accusation to be directed AT DIR divers rather than FROM them.
There seems to be a myth that DIR divers dive only in quarries. We don't - we dive in quarries between sea dives. This year we have a week charting and exploring an unknown wreck in 54 metes. I have 8 sea dives scheduled for June. 6 for July. 4 for August, 12 for September. We have a week in the northern isles of Scotland doing deep wrecks. Next year we have a week in Narvik diving world war 2 wrecks, another week in scapa, as well as several other sea gigs already planned.
I do love it when people accuse of not doing proper diving. What, exactly, is proper diving. We do shitloads of inland dives, shitloads of sea dives. I suspect when people say "proper" diving they mean "diving like me". So if we are not using breathers, we are not "proper" diving for some people. If we are not 100metre down, we are not "proper" diving for some people. Which is all fair enough, actually. But we would be slated for telling a breather diver he is not "proper" diving, so how come the same thing is acceptable when directed at us.