I agree with you 100% Jim.
For some time now I have been attempting to introduce Hogarthian and DIR in my
area, and it is just now beginning to gain some practitioners. The problem with
these divers is not totally their fault though. New divers especially are very
easily persuaded into shit convoluted gear. This is the doing of the dive shop
owners and instructors.

I am so fed up with the shops in my area. The owners want absolute control over
every aspect of diving here. On more than one occasion, while trying to support
the local shops, I have sent my students in to purchase decent equipment and
they
return with crap. The owner is an excellent sales person but doesn't know shit
about diving, and even if he did he would still sell them crap because that's
what's in his store. He makes it known that if you don't buy from him, then
forget about any further service.

For people in a fairly isolated are, that is a very persuasive reason to buy
locally.

Regards

Tim

Jim Cobb wrote:

> I would like to point out that a major advantage of the DIR system is
> it's standards. If you dive with a fellow DIR diver you know that the
> long hose is on the right post. When the shit hits the fan you can react
> instinctively without having to mull through "uh, lets see, old John here
> puts his long on his left which means that his second is on his right, or
> did he leave it on his left?...".
>
> Although many of you revolt against standards, citing "personal
> preference", thats fine and all but in the process you are casually
> tossing out the concept of automatically knowing exactly where everything
> is on your buddy. I understand that techdivers are a pretty iconoclastic
> bunch, but in the interests of survival equipment standards are a
> reasonable goal, IMHO.
>
> Comparing this goal to all sorts of extremist political ideologies is
> laughable at best. Boys and girls, it is *our* butts that are on the line
> here. Either you are DIR or you are not.
>
> Nowadays most are not which is why I prefer to dive solo. I look forward
> to the day when DIR is taken up by most divers, and at that point I will
> reconsider the buddy system. But right now it is a total joke with every
> diver a personal preference puzzle which you only have seconds to figure
> out when hell breaks loose.
>
> Why DIR and not some other system? There *is no other system* you bunch
> of bone heads.
>
>  Jim
>
> Sender: Dan Beck  Date: 7/26/98 9:24 PM
>
> >It seems that you don't get the point...you are obviously thinking about
> >YOURSELF with your hose configuration.
> >Your buddy will be the one that is FUCKED with no recourse if the post rolls
> >off....oh well.........just get a new buddy....just won't be me :-) or
> >anyone that understands what it means.    Good Luck with your dive
> >Buddies......some day they will be few and hard to find, when everyone wises
> >up.
> >
> >Dan Beck
> >danbeck@im*.ne*
>
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