What will DIR be in 2023?

[frosty the snowman]

Originally Posted by Sixsquid

Blimey! That takes me back. I remember reading loads of 'Hells Angels' books (Chopper, Mama ... ) as a young teenager where the earning of wings was essential. Came in useful, as I encountered quite a few from UK chapters as an older teenager. I swiftly add that I was always a model citizen and actually helped to 'clean up' a couple

You mean like this..?

[nigelH]

Originally Posted by Dave Abraham

The rest of us will have a membrane osmosis system that draws O2 from the water and reoxygenates a breathing fluid. No depth limits no deco and no limit to bottom time.

Naah we had some nutter trying to sell that idea ages ago.
It's not possible.

Now if somebody hacks cold fusion so we can dismantle one element and build another we have the trick but how about a better version of the old 'hyperoxide' scrubber material that converts the CO2 it absorbs into O2. All you need is a loop and some DIL to top it up with. If it is hydrophobic you deal with a loop flood by a DIL flush.

Then the DIR boys will be able to sit in their quarries holding depth to the millimetre and trim to the degree and probably make posts to the web congratulating one another on their Halcyon pocket PCs.

[TerryH]

Originally Posted by nigelH

Then the DIR boys will be able to sit in their quarries holding depth to the millimetre .

Keep up Nigel. All the quarries were filled in.
They are now back to practicing on the kitchen table

[Letz]

Originally Posted by frosty the snowman

You mean like this..?

Not quite while I was as slender and fresh as that back then, when I was near, or under, a bike I was more likely to have a spanner in my hand and be covered in oil But then I did only ride on British bikes

Although I did venture out on bicycle in my early twenties (last time I got on a bicycle I think!)



Note, the child is not mine

[Mal Bridgeman]

Originally Posted by Sixsquid

Note, the child is not mine

This would be before you had club foot I suppose


As to the OP, I think there will still be a place for people passionate about diving and diving safety, setting a high bar for skills and skill proficiency, pushing the boundaries of those areas. Will it be GUE? Who knows but I expect that, by that time the PADI Pyramid system will have expanded so every one in the world will have a PADI open water cert and virtually everyone will be an instructor ...... even Stevechesh will be considered a Role model

Mal

[stevechesh]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

This would be before you had club foot I suppose


...... even Stevechesh will be considered a Role model

Mal

What? you mean i'm not already

[Letz]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

This would be before you had club foot I suppose

and legs of steel

...... even Stevechesh will be considered a Role model

Originally Posted by stevechesh

What? you mean i'm not already

You are to me hunny although I'm not inclined to take the lump hammer and crowbar

[milldog]

Thinking on this they will have all got together by now and brought a house in ............waco or somewhere like that

And they will be instructing the local FBI, SWAT etc that they need to assault there building in three's

Graham

[wilbo]

Milldog will have had his DIR implant for a decade. He will be an ambassador for all things DIR. He will groom people like Mr Payne into the ranks.

Him and Mr Payne will have had DIR offspring: George, Jarrod, David and Gary (Gary is the troublesome one - not quite seeing things the way dad and dad want).

Sea diving has been licensed - due to the sodium content. Quarry diving is becoming more popular - with more and more quarries being created.

Mr Chase's Heron has become an unlikely champion of the cause.

[fezboy]

Re: Where will DIR be in 2023....

Will people be able to find DIR if they have moved, the Post Office do this thing were they forward your mail....