Proposal for Change to YD

[Adrian Kelland]

Originally Posted by neilh

If there was a request for PADI, BSAC, TDI, IANTD specific forums to be able to discuss agency specific topics then I'm sure that would be considered, but there doesn't seem to be a big demand for that.

We already have one anyway.

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

Has any decision been made yet???

Just waiting for Jay to rubber stamp the dal, then l'll be the Dergoo MOD




Do you like the new name...Dergoo


Or maybe Gooder.


Think l'll start a useless poll

[Devon Diver]

Originally Posted by Garf

Hi All

The DIR Forum ands Sub Forum.

I think we should ask Jay if he would be willing to get rid of them.
What do you think?

Can't we just get rid of DIR ?

[Gareth Burrows]

Originally Posted by Devon Diver

Can't we just get rid of DIR ?

sod off you, im not rising to it

[Sparky750]

Originally Posted by Devon Diver

Can't we just get rid of DIR ?

You've got my vote

[Mal Bridgeman]

Originally Posted by Sparky750

You've got my vote

You would probably like a bum fiddlers one too
Mal

[Sparky750]

Originally Posted by Mal Bridgeman

You would probably like a bum fiddlers one too
Mal

bitch I've heard of groomers like you before i've told you my hoop is a no go even with the speshul lube you where on about

[Paulus]

Not that anyone would give a pickled dog turd for my oppinion but here it is any way.

I've been diving long enough to remember when DIR was not very well known in this country. Not that it is now to anyone other than those who have a particularly keen interest in diving. It is still an emerging "branch" of diving in my mind.
I had never heard of GUE until joining YD and it is only through reading some recent thread that I found out what it is. In my limited knowledge I would not consider GUE to be an "agency" in the same sense as BSAC, PADI or IANTD etc. Its principals are not yet sufficiently enfranchised throughout the diving world to be given "agency" status.

DIR is a style of diving, a rather eliteist style of diving at that. Padi teach you to dive. BSAC teach you to dive. GUE tell you to do it differently or you can't join. If I went to a GUE evangelist and said "I'd done some snorkelling on holiday and I'd like to learn to scuba dive" I'd be told to go and learn with PADI or BSAC first then come back when I've learnt to dive. And as they are true agencies, I could do so anywhere in the country if not the world.

But back to the question at hand. The DIR/GUE sub-forum is no big deal. If that particular style of diving lights your candle or it just seem to be a natural progression for a very competent diver looking for the last word in refinement, then no harm is done. Some posts can make it difficult for incompetent holiday diving strokes like me to discern good practice and good advice from uneccessary faffing. Labelling GUE specific posts as such might help the likes of me tell their arses from their elbows.
Those posters who tend to be "in yer face" about their prefered style of diving would be in yer face anyway.

As for me, well, the whole DIR/GUE thing is as good a reason as any to adopt pink and yellow kit, odd fins and hoses exactly 1.95m long (with a tag stating as much).

Like I said who gives a pickled dog turd anyway?

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by Paulus

Like I said who gives a pickled dog turd anyway?

Probably the folk that work in pickling factories.

Come on Jay, am l the Gooder MOD or what?

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by Paulus

Like I said who gives a pickled dog turd anyway?

People that have a strange sense of humour regarding chrissy and birthday prezzies.