Pug:
Rule #1 (It is even on the GUE site) Don't dive with strokes.
They define a stroke as any person who follows unsafe practices. Violating rule #1 is an unsafe practice, is it not? That is the entire defense GUE uses to say the deaths of several DIR divers don't count against the system. "They were violating rule #1, so they weren't DIR."
Posts by other divers:
Waterlover: (on this thread)
"I'm a stroke because, I wear fixed D rings on my shoulder and waist."
They are very specific on gear. George Irvine says on the WKPP site:
http://www.wkpp.org/articles/Gear/newgeorge.html
Quote:
"A good SCUBA equipment configuration needs to carry through all of your diving, from open water to cave in such a fashion that the addition of items necessary for each dive does not in any way interfere with or change the existing configuration."
He goes on to say:
"a diver must "settle for nothing less than perfection. Those who do will discover on their own the value of such effort. Those who do not will never understand what the others are talking about". What we have presented here is called the "Doing It Right" system, and is a platform that is integrated completely and accommodates all contingencies and additions, but no phobias. Use it accordingly with one caveat - "never break Rule Number One", which is "Don't dive with strokes". "
MANY sites, including those run by GUE graduates, call DIR an all or nothing approach. I have even heard them say "95% DIR is like 95% pregnant"
