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<font color='#000080'>The whole dir/gue has only just started drifting to out neck of the woods, im aware it’s been in England for a bit now, but still 9/10 of our local divers have never herd of it, let alone know what it entails
I have looked on the gue site (and others) and read with interest the forums concerning dir
What I have read so far indicates some very good sound diving skills and equipment configurations; I particularly was pleased to see the attention to basic skills
but (and there’s always a but) there does seam to be an attitude of, “it is done this way and only this way" now I firmly believe there is more than 1 way to do something correctly, and if there is an intolerance to respect individual opinions, is that person better staying away from dir?
Example
was chatting with a dir diver, who told me that my double bladder wing was a big nono, as I had always thought it as a good redundancy I asked him to explain why, basically he told me I have sufficient redundancy with a normal wing and a drysute, and that it was just an extra bit of kit " to go wrong", ok I said, but for example, early on in a deep dive where you are heavily over weighted due to all the gas you are carrying, your wing goes tits up there is no way your drysute will get you to the surface, and if it does then how buoyant will you be on the surface, he explained that you could drop some weight if needed then assent on your drysute, and at the surface drop the rest of your weight
Now in my opinion dropping weight can lead to all sorts of problems, especially an uncontrolled fast assent, I can just swap to the alternate bladder and ascend (or continue the dive)
Now this guy may not be preaching out of the dir bible correctly, but if we assume what he says is correct, for arguments sake, and people like myself have genuine disagreements with the views, how does this fit with the dir training etc
Another example
I watched the training video on dsmb deployment (from the dir site http://www.fifthd.com/divestore/classes/video/sbag.htm ) I am assuming from this that shallow mid water deployment is part of the training
my concerns with this would be relating to uk waters, commonly within 3/4m of leaving the wreck/seabed you have no visual reference, this can be quite disorientating, deep deployment of the dsmb gives you a reference point for your assent, I would not want to hold that real (from the video) in a 50m deployment, apart from friction burns, the speed the reel would be spinning would be scary and prone to incident, now I have a dsmb with an attached gas bottle all connected up with a reel stowed neatly in a thy pocket, its deployment is quicker, less fussy, and les in your face than that on the video, so unless someone could give me some very good reasons why not, I would stick with my own dsmb deployment arrangement
now i can understand the argument for having everyone wearing the same kit configuration, especially when the buddy principle is so high in its teaching, but to what extent? just how tolerant is dir? Does it have something to offer the strong minded individual or is it sheep only? (a bit heavy there lol) the course looks to really get to grips with your basic skills, which can only be a good thing, so please tell me my paranoia is out of line
<font color='#000080'>The whole dir/gue has only just started drifting to out neck of the woods, im aware it’s been in England for a bit now, but still 9/10 of our local divers have never herd of it, let alone know what it entails
I have looked on the gue site (and others) and read with interest the forums concerning dir
What I have read so far indicates some very good sound diving skills and equipment configurations; I particularly was pleased to see the attention to basic skills
but (and there’s always a but) there does seam to be an attitude of, “it is done this way and only this way" now I firmly believe there is more than 1 way to do something correctly, and if there is an intolerance to respect individual opinions, is that person better staying away from dir?
Example
was chatting with a dir diver, who told me that my double bladder wing was a big nono, as I had always thought it as a good redundancy I asked him to explain why, basically he told me I have sufficient redundancy with a normal wing and a drysute, and that it was just an extra bit of kit " to go wrong", ok I said, but for example, early on in a deep dive where you are heavily over weighted due to all the gas you are carrying, your wing goes tits up there is no way your drysute will get you to the surface, and if it does then how buoyant will you be on the surface, he explained that you could drop some weight if needed then assent on your drysute, and at the surface drop the rest of your weight
Now in my opinion dropping weight can lead to all sorts of problems, especially an uncontrolled fast assent, I can just swap to the alternate bladder and ascend (or continue the dive)
Now this guy may not be preaching out of the dir bible correctly, but if we assume what he says is correct, for arguments sake, and people like myself have genuine disagreements with the views, how does this fit with the dir training etc
Another example
I watched the training video on dsmb deployment (from the dir site http://www.fifthd.com/divestore/classes/video/sbag.htm ) I am assuming from this that shallow mid water deployment is part of the training
my concerns with this would be relating to uk waters, commonly within 3/4m of leaving the wreck/seabed you have no visual reference, this can be quite disorientating, deep deployment of the dsmb gives you a reference point for your assent, I would not want to hold that real (from the video) in a 50m deployment, apart from friction burns, the speed the reel would be spinning would be scary and prone to incident, now I have a dsmb with an attached gas bottle all connected up with a reel stowed neatly in a thy pocket, its deployment is quicker, less fussy, and les in your face than that on the video, so unless someone could give me some very good reasons why not, I would stick with my own dsmb deployment arrangement
now i can understand the argument for having everyone wearing the same kit configuration, especially when the buddy principle is so high in its teaching, but to what extent? just how tolerant is dir? Does it have something to offer the strong minded individual or is it sheep only? (a bit heavy there lol) the course looks to really get to grips with your basic skills, which can only be a good thing, so please tell me my paranoia is out of line