DIR Diving not for everyone ?

[Phil Ennis]

<font color='#0000FF'>Sorry that we have gone off the original topic here but just to clear it up, I do not take offence to that word as I believe that it is only a very few DIR divers that actually mean it. Within the DIR divers that I know or dive with it is used as a joke, very tongue in cheek. I have been convinced and converted to a lot of DIR practices, some I still need to be convinced about, almost there with the 100% for deco but not quite.

Let's try to keep to constructive discussion and only use that WORD sparingly. &nbsp;

[Lanny]

Originally Posted by [b

Quote[/b] (Mark Davies @ Aug. 31 2003,16:14)]While you're on, what about the point on carribiners? I can just about see the argument against, though I've got to say that after using them in climbing for many years I've never known an entanglement problem.

I used to do a lot of climbing, both alpine and rock, before it took a bit of a back seat as I was diving a lot more. &nbsp;

Carabiners are not an entanglement hazard on the rock because there is little to entangle, other than your own rope which you will have control of. &nbsp;Underwater is a different case entirely as fishermen drag nets over our wrecks and leave practically invisible monofilament line. &nbsp;This is the major entanglement hazard, partcularly in low visibility or high task loading situations.