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Al, Yes this works when the best way to nab the lobster is with your right arm. When the critter is wrenched in a hole along the side of a rib to your left, the best option would be to shoot with the left arm. I wear a wrist "bottom timer" on my left arm and quite a few times I have missed the lobster cause I had to use my left hand and got hung up, got bit a few times too.... I think what's evolving out of this thread s that DIR is probably the best method for most diving. In some situations as illustrated by quite a few people, the exact DIR configuration may not be the best option. Art. Oh my God I have blasphemed! -----Original Message----- From: ajmarve@ba*.ne* [mailto:ajmarve@ba*.ne*] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 8:46 PM To: Paltz, Art Cc: Mailing Tech Diver List (E-mail) Subject: Re: If you mess with it, it isn't DIR Last time I posted one guy wrote me back, saying he only has one arm. He might have a problem lobstering DIR. The rest of us, with two wrists, dont have a problem. You just keep one arm free for lobster, and one for the stuff. I dont eat lobster, thus I dont take em, but while we are on the subject NYS now has some kind of program where the commercial guys have to notch their shorts, so make a note and give the little guys a break. regards, Al Marvelli ( Non Lobster taking northeast diver/ visionary) Paltz, Art wrote: > OK, stirring the pot some more. If you are hunting for NE lobsters (you > know, the smart ones with claws....), what is the proper DIR setup? As I > think Janet said last week, wearing anything on the wrist is a liability and > DEFINITELY not optimal. Considering DIR by definition if I'm not mistaken > is minimal and optimal, what do you do with the compass and bottom timer on > your wrist? Hum.... Could the answer be a console..... Oh my God, a > little bit of logic to the discussion..... > > Art. > > -----Original Message----- > From: bdi@wh*.ne* [mailto:bdi@wh*.ne*] > Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:45 AM > To: Guy Wittig; techdiver@aquanaut.com > Subject: Re: If you mess with it, it isn't DIR > > At 07:44 PM 24/5/99 +1000, Guy Wittig wrote: > >Billy > >> > >>You're right Kev. I believe that on the next space shuttle > >>launch, the NASA engineers are going to try putting the > engines > >>at the top, firing upwards. > > > > > >And without people trying new ideas and living with the > adverse comments > >from the status-quo NASA would still be using Mercury > rockets because they > >were simple, clean and functional. > > Nah. Not powerful enough. The Russians are still lifting > bigger payloads with their original rocket motors. Which > means they got it right earlier and are still doing it > right. > > > > >Not that I approve of consoles, but this is obviously a > dumb statement. > > Possibly, but only from your myopic perspective. > > Guy, one more time, you can't take DIR, change it, > and call it DIR. > > You can't take an entire system, change a piece of > it, and then rely on the continuing integrity of the > system. > > And as far as 'people trying new ideas and living > with the adverse comments from the status-quo' goes, > why don;t you take a look at the half baked people who > get on this list with their ill-conceived ideas to > 'improve' a system they clearly don't understand. > > Not one of them can match the knowledge, experience, > ability, safety and achievements of the people who > invented DIR. People who, dive some of the most > demanding environments in the world, and who, > tellingly, dive DIR just the way it is, with none > of these so-called 'improvements'. > > Ever stopped to wonder why? > > If that doesn't tell you something, nothing will. > > > > >There is always a place for well informed, well thought out > innovation. > >And > >if DIR does not ever take on board innovation then > eventually it will become > >irrelevent. > > Says who? > > rgrds billyw > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to > `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to > `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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