greatwhitepike
Registered
After logging in for the first time there was a prodding header to jump in. Pleasure to do so! I have found several fascinating topics covered in these forums that have helped with my research immensely and I hope I can add some interesting if not naive perspectives to the board.
Well let get down to it.
After many hours of researching the topic online I have really bought into this "DIR" philosophy... that is as a technical rope rescue tech following NFPA standards I can truly appreciate having the most simple, strong, fail proof and effective systems possible.
But now the dilemma...., I am a newcomer to the SCUBA world, I mean I have My Advanced Open Water cert with PADI I have been diving in fresh, South Atlantic, Cenotes, Ice and Northern Pacific but trust me I am honestly very humble! Today however I finally had the chance to meet Central Alberta's legendary Diver he has over 30 years experience without a single injury to him or his crews and has partaken in almost every diving related activity including commercial there is. You can't say SCUBA in Alberta without hearing his name. Now that might not seem much to some people considering Alberta is landlocked but you would be surprised at our diving activity for instance we have over 150 commercial divers in Red Deer which only has about 100000 people and more certified Divers than British Columbia. So it is still something.
That being said when I spoke of DIR and WKP Project he looked at me like I was mad! I even printed off a couple of articles from the internet for reference. The way I understand it is his point of view is that this is going backwards in time, because he started diving like this out of neccesity, because that was all there was and he doesn't understand why people would want to do that. For example he logs about three hundred days of diving a year he uses a Zeagle Ranger BCD and after many years with it he has never had a single problem with it. Can a plate really be as comfy in and out of the water as this plush setup? I mean we can't kid ourselves there are still a lot of situations where wearing your BC out of water makes sense.
I guess the point I am trying to get at is, There seems to be a plethora of sites and articles regarding why to DIR can some one else with tech diving experience provide more reasons why not to DIR to help us newbies get set up with both sides of the story to base our opinions on?
P.S.
How does it make any sense that these "simple & effective" setups stripped of any bells and whistles go for more money than fully equipped models? It doesn't make any sense to me. In fact I even heard it's a marketing ploy to sell more equipment and get people to change their gear.
No disrespect meant and thanks for the time.
Well let get down to it.
After many hours of researching the topic online I have really bought into this "DIR" philosophy... that is as a technical rope rescue tech following NFPA standards I can truly appreciate having the most simple, strong, fail proof and effective systems possible.
But now the dilemma...., I am a newcomer to the SCUBA world, I mean I have My Advanced Open Water cert with PADI I have been diving in fresh, South Atlantic, Cenotes, Ice and Northern Pacific but trust me I am honestly very humble! Today however I finally had the chance to meet Central Alberta's legendary Diver he has over 30 years experience without a single injury to him or his crews and has partaken in almost every diving related activity including commercial there is. You can't say SCUBA in Alberta without hearing his name. Now that might not seem much to some people considering Alberta is landlocked but you would be surprised at our diving activity for instance we have over 150 commercial divers in Red Deer which only has about 100000 people and more certified Divers than British Columbia. So it is still something.
That being said when I spoke of DIR and WKP Project he looked at me like I was mad! I even printed off a couple of articles from the internet for reference. The way I understand it is his point of view is that this is going backwards in time, because he started diving like this out of neccesity, because that was all there was and he doesn't understand why people would want to do that. For example he logs about three hundred days of diving a year he uses a Zeagle Ranger BCD and after many years with it he has never had a single problem with it. Can a plate really be as comfy in and out of the water as this plush setup? I mean we can't kid ourselves there are still a lot of situations where wearing your BC out of water makes sense.
I guess the point I am trying to get at is, There seems to be a plethora of sites and articles regarding why to DIR can some one else with tech diving experience provide more reasons why not to DIR to help us newbies get set up with both sides of the story to base our opinions on?
P.S.
How does it make any sense that these "simple & effective" setups stripped of any bells and whistles go for more money than fully equipped models? It doesn't make any sense to me. In fact I even heard it's a marketing ploy to sell more equipment and get people to change their gear.
No disrespect meant and thanks for the time.
.... given by the "old-time" divers as to why the DIR system is not for them... often based on an equipment configuration or some other point they don't agree with. 
