DCDivenut
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I have what I feel is a legitimate question and I am hoping I can ask it without getting killed
From what I have read about DIR (on this site, www.gue.com, and several other places) it seems that it is a overall approach to diving that is more focussed and strict than most of the other agencies.
That being said, the focus that I seem to pick up on is aimed at cave and technical diving, or for divers who plan on doing dives that are beyond the "normal" operating range of most divers.
That being said, what is the role of DIR in a warm water, open environment where a diver is not going to go beyond 120' and do strictly NDL diving. I ask this knowing that certain aspects of DIR are INVALUABLE in any diving scenario (buoyancy control/trim comes to mind) but since as several people point out over and over, DIR cannot be used piecemeal, but can only be properly applied in its entirety.
So... if you can only use DIR in it's entirety, and assuming that not all of the DIR principles are "necessary" for the majority of recreational diving, how does your "average" diver learn those skills if the other agencies do not properly emphasize them and DIR won't teach them piecemeal?
This is not intended to be a critique of DIR (if it were I know I would be a dead man posting) but a serious question. I HATE seeing divers act like idiots on a reef. However, we are not going to get everyone to take a DIR class (and I don't think DIR wants everyone to take their classes) so how else can we as "responsible diving leaders" get the "average" diver to apply the parts of DIR that are relevant to them in their daily diving?
From what I have read about DIR (on this site, www.gue.com, and several other places) it seems that it is a overall approach to diving that is more focussed and strict than most of the other agencies.
That being said, the focus that I seem to pick up on is aimed at cave and technical diving, or for divers who plan on doing dives that are beyond the "normal" operating range of most divers.
That being said, what is the role of DIR in a warm water, open environment where a diver is not going to go beyond 120' and do strictly NDL diving. I ask this knowing that certain aspects of DIR are INVALUABLE in any diving scenario (buoyancy control/trim comes to mind) but since as several people point out over and over, DIR cannot be used piecemeal, but can only be properly applied in its entirety.
So... if you can only use DIR in it's entirety, and assuming that not all of the DIR principles are "necessary" for the majority of recreational diving, how does your "average" diver learn those skills if the other agencies do not properly emphasize them and DIR won't teach them piecemeal?
This is not intended to be a critique of DIR (if it were I know I would be a dead man posting) but a serious question. I HATE seeing divers act like idiots on a reef. However, we are not going to get everyone to take a DIR class (and I don't think DIR wants everyone to take their classes) so how else can we as "responsible diving leaders" get the "average" diver to apply the parts of DIR that are relevant to them in their daily diving?