BDSC
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Interesting thoughts on this thread. I don't know that I really ever got the concept of DIR myself. I just figured if I go diving, have a great dive and enjoy myself, and come back from it safely, I must be "Doing It Right".
What does DIR mean?
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By the way Jeff, with the cost of ammo going sky high, that cat must be costing you a small fortune!
Blackwood
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A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Rainer
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That's surprising.
I was never once berated in any of my GUE courses. Never once put down or made to feel small. I found my GUE instructors (three of them) to all be good natured, smart, talented, and fun instructors who really cared about our progress. They treated us as adults, were open about errors, but framed suggestions in a positive way to help us move forward. Nothing I experienced would make me ever think of 'diving fascism'.
I was never once berated in any of my GUE courses. Never once put down or made to feel small. I found my GUE instructors (three of them) to all be good natured, smart, talented, and fun instructors who really cared about our progress. They treated us as adults, were open about errors, but framed suggestions in a positive way to help us move forward. Nothing I experienced would make me ever think of 'diving fascism'.
DIR = Do It Ridiculous
Make everything complicated, use all sorts of complex procedures even for a pool dive and always carry a mega watt can light even in tropical waters at noon with double tanks and only a specific set of team members because everybody other than themselves is doing it wrong (DIW) for a 30 foot reef dive in a full dry suit in 80 degree water and everything they have on is ninja black and guru approved. When you see strokes doing these things you have correctly identified the rare species elitus strokum, subspecies ridculousosus, testonaroid. Known to frequent Florida caves where their striking black plumage and odd rituals are on fullest display but the species can be found anywhere at anytime.
N, (AGNSBCMOFDADGAD) ain't got no stink'n BC mask on forehead diver and don't give a damn
Make everything complicated, use all sorts of complex procedures even for a pool dive and always carry a mega watt can light even in tropical waters at noon with double tanks and only a specific set of team members because everybody other than themselves is doing it wrong (DIW) for a 30 foot reef dive in a full dry suit in 80 degree water and everything they have on is ninja black and guru approved. When you see strokes doing these things you have correctly identified the rare species elitus strokum, subspecies ridculousosus, testonaroid. Known to frequent Florida caves where their striking black plumage and odd rituals are on fullest display but the species can be found anywhere at anytime.
N, (AGNSBCMOFDADGAD) ain't got no stink'n BC mask on forehead diver and don't give a damn
Blackwood
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Similarly, I've always thought that if I go out for a sunday drive, push my car to its limits after having removed the airbags and seatbelts for "weight" issues, enjoy myself and arrive home safely, I must be "Doing It Right."
Stupid, argumentitive analogy, I know. But it serves the purpose. Safety isn't necessarily best measured by result (i.e. after the fact).
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