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Hey billy you really need to go on a walkabout and chill out.

Susan, JT, and I never said
1) we were DIR in the ocean
2)We wear armloads of BT's as a backup.(just one)

PS Hoot is spelled with a "H"






bdi@wh*.ne* wrote:

JT, you, Susan, bigbird and others have missed the point.

>
> They can dive with an armload of bottom timers. That's
> their business. Who gives a root. But
> 1) they shouldn't kid themselves that it's DIR.
> 2) they shouldn't try to convince others that it's DIR.
>
> When the personal preference crowd like Susan & bigbird
> mess with the DIR concept, look what happens, they start
> spreading and encouraging ignorant idiocy like this.....
>
> >"My understanding is that the DIR method includes the
> >reduction of clutter and the minimizing of potential
> >failure points. Can you really consider a backup BT as
> >clutter, or an additional failure point? How are people
> >configuring this backup timer on their gear where it is
> >considered clutter? I choose not to wear my BT on my
> >wrist, but on a console, clipped on the left d ring as
> >in DIR. Is this extra 4 inches of console clutter? "
>
> This person is now claiming that diving with a goddamn
> console is DIR!!!!
>
> If susan just wants to say "I dive with a back-up bottom
> timer." That's her business.
>
> If she wants to tell people that what she's diving is DIR,
> she'll get corrected.
>
> rgds     billyw
>
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