As I go through this forum, I constantly see remarks from non-DIR/GUE divers making some smart comments about "I am not doing it right (DIW) so I am going to die", or other comments about the people that subscribe to the DIR philosophy. While I admit that the term is off putting, I also agree that scuba education is down right dangerous the way it is currently taught and most people are probably doing it wrong (nothing to do with gear, just not thinking).
I have been diving with a former GUE instructor from Lexington, KY Ed Gabe and on a recent plane ride, I met another DIR diver. These two guys don't mind if people dive with standard jacket BCDs, or are not streamlined, as long as they are safe and dive within their limits. They will defend the need for a team to work as one and have one configuration when engaging in major dives like a cave or wreck.
The former GUE instructor told me he met JJ and that he also just wanted scuba education to get better and if GUE influenced that even a bit he would be happy.
Now the DIR: Fundamentals of diving does come across as this is the best way but so does the SSI book I did my OW with and the PADI books I did for nitrox and PPB. So that aside, I don't see an attitude with the few GUE/DIR divers I have met.
Not to start a flame war. I just wanted to post my observations. It seems like people are a bit reactionary and have never met these divers or only read something one or two a$$es have posted. (On a side note, George Irvine has a website with posts from various sites and he does come across as a total a$$).
Just my thoughts.
Thanks,
Jerrod
I have been diving with a former GUE instructor from Lexington, KY Ed Gabe and on a recent plane ride, I met another DIR diver. These two guys don't mind if people dive with standard jacket BCDs, or are not streamlined, as long as they are safe and dive within their limits. They will defend the need for a team to work as one and have one configuration when engaging in major dives like a cave or wreck.
The former GUE instructor told me he met JJ and that he also just wanted scuba education to get better and if GUE influenced that even a bit he would be happy.
Now the DIR: Fundamentals of diving does come across as this is the best way but so does the SSI book I did my OW with and the PADI books I did for nitrox and PPB. So that aside, I don't see an attitude with the few GUE/DIR divers I have met.
Not to start a flame war. I just wanted to post my observations. It seems like people are a bit reactionary and have never met these divers or only read something one or two a$$es have posted. (On a side note, George Irvine has a website with posts from various sites and he does come across as a total a$$).
Just my thoughts.
Thanks,
Jerrod