Eric Sedletzky
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He practices DIR style diving which stands for Doing It Right.What is "DIR Practitioner"?
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He practices DIR style diving which stands for Doing It Right.What is "DIR Practitioner"?
He practices DIR style diving which stands for Doing It Right.
Ah. Didn't know that was a thing. Presumed it was a given, competences aside.
Baptize thyself in the name of the longhose, the backplate, and the WKPP.Yhea you carry everything in a very specific way, carry out tasks in a very specific way and you use a broken off steak knife as your official dive knife. Oh and the blood of three chickens must be sacrificed upon the rock of abomination at dead man's point on the 3rd Wednesday after summer equinox while in the northern hemisphere. I have done this twice.
What is "DIR Practitioner"?
Isn't a BPW only different from a standard BCD in that it lacks certain features like pockets, integrated weighting, and etcetera bells & whistles?
He practices DIR style diving which stands for Doing It Right.
Another distinction is that, with a steel backplate or weighted single-tank adapter, the BP/W concept can place a significant amount of ballast right up against your back, near your center of gravity (or perhaps it's the center of lift--my physics is rusty here), rather than further away on a belt on your waist or elsewhere.
In the current version of ScubaBoard, if you join a forum that requires permissions, including the "DIR Practitioner" forum, that forum gets listed under your name. There is a somewhat arbitrary hierarchy to those forum names. A number of people who have joined the DIR Practitioner forum have expressed concern about the fact that the label appears under their names. That goes back to the history of the situation, when there was a serious gulf between the DIR divers and the non-DIR divers. (You can get a hint of it by seeing the comments above.) Because of the gulf, a separate forum (actually two) was set up so that DIR divers could have a chance to talk about DIR principles without being harassed by those who opposed them. You have to join them, and when you do, you get the label automatically. One of the common criticisms of DIR divers was their alleged tendency to shove their methodology into the faces of others. Thus, the fact that the term "DIR Practitioner" appears below a name implies that they are of this "shove it into your face" mentality, when that could in fact be far from the truth."DIR" is an archaic term for the diving system promoted by certain organizations, primarily GUE and UTD. The term persists because nobody has proposed a suitable alternative generic term for that system, or at least none has caught on. I would prefer to call myself a GUE diver rather than a DIR diver.
Doing it wrong (DIW):Is there such thing as DIR/W divers? Or would you just call them DOS divers?