You have the wrong gear for this class!
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I see his point but heck if he's het up about it then maybee he shoulda provided you with gear for the dive
Oh good grief, tell him/her to get a life.
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Mr Carcharodon
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If this NAUI instructor sees your preferred diving style as anathema might you be in the wrong place? Just asking. It appears this instructor is profoundly confused and dim. Why are you in a place where the instructors shed darkness rather than light? I’d hope that is not your goal from the training.
The instructor has the right to prescribe the gear worn by his assistants, even if those assistants may not like his prescriptions.
I do not know how you convince someone that your setup is not "tech" gear. Our LDS owner STILL refers to the BP/W/long hose setup as "tech s*&#", but we are allowed to dive it during the OW checkout dives, where no demonstrations need to be done. We may not use it in the pool, and I don't.
Randy, you are trying to row upstream with one oar. The shop you are in is clearly not sympathetic to what you are doing at all. Mine wasn't, either, so I went elsewhere. I came back as a rather peripheral DM (I really only help Peter teach) and let my husband run the interference for us. You can make a decision to keep trying to fight city hall, or change your gear but keep your skills, procedures and protocols, and try to inculcate the more important parts of DIR diving, like dive and gas planning, good pre-dive checks, and solid in-water skills, and let the equipment side slide for the time being.
I do not know how you convince someone that your setup is not "tech" gear. Our LDS owner STILL refers to the BP/W/long hose setup as "tech s*&#", but we are allowed to dive it during the OW checkout dives, where no demonstrations need to be done. We may not use it in the pool, and I don't.
Randy, you are trying to row upstream with one oar. The shop you are in is clearly not sympathetic to what you are doing at all. Mine wasn't, either, so I went elsewhere. I came back as a rather peripheral DM (I really only help Peter teach) and let my husband run the interference for us. You can make a decision to keep trying to fight city hall, or change your gear but keep your skills, procedures and protocols, and try to inculcate the more important parts of DIR diving, like dive and gas planning, good pre-dive checks, and solid in-water skills, and let the equipment side slide for the time being.
surfinusa555
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Maybe you can just use the owner's rental stuff while with a class?
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Lynn, the problem here is that there are only 3 LDS in my area and 2 sports chalet. None of them are DIR friendly, although 1 of them (the one I went out with today) us warming up to the idea, especially after Jeff come up and gave a presentation that he finally sees DIR is not just about gear.
The second one is where I am doing DM with, the owner/instructor wants nothing to do with DIR or BP/W. The reason is that he based his knowledge on what he read by people who knows nothing about DIR. He is so against BP/W that when he did Tech in his shop, he is selling Hollis BCDs as a "tech rig".
The third one dont even know what DIR is.
Sports Chalet.... nevermind.
See, its not about me trying to fight anyone; this is what I dive in and while I agree an instructor has a right to prescribe whatever, my beef is that it is for the wrong reasons.
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