MHK once bubbled...
This is a plea to the recent proliferation of DIR proponents that have joined this list as a result of the challenge on the Quest list. While I very much appreciate your enthusiasm and your desire to reach a wide audience about the benefits of DIR, I really want to emphasis that a select few of you are going about it in a completely, 100%, wrong way. <snip>
I'd like to add something to this. Rational thinking is not a commodity that can be monopolised by a select few and good, even excellent diving skills can not be learned on the internet or in a weekend course. Having a DIR-F stamp in your logbook doesn't mean you've undergone some kind of "Maxtrix" style instant-skill-acquisition any more than your first intro-dive makes you a divemaster. Maybe the Grand-poo-bah of DIR can afford to be a little snobish but he should also take the responsibility that comes with his leadership roll and set a much better example for people to emulate!!
So, Michael, if you want to tell someone to shut up, I think I know where *I* would start...... Do you dare to try killing this weed at the root?
I'll also place the comment that the scubaboard DIR advocates are generally much less pretentious sounding than you get elsewhere. Let's keep it that way.
I think I might be a good example of the kind of diver Micheal means. I'm quite open to DIR and I've learned what I can about it but at the same time I am so completely offended by the tone of DIR cyber-divers that I feel slightly embarassed to be reconfiguring along DIR lines. I'm doing it anyway because even a "dumb-farm-animal" like me can recognise a best-practice when he sees one but I would, in fact, be *mortified* if someone thought I was actually trying to be DIR because people will assume that you are arrogant and contemptuous of "strokes".
R..