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Then at the moment, I don't accept the totality. I want to dive, and not have my dives turn out like some of the clusterfucks that I have had the misfortune to be involved with. Solo-diving has taught me navigation, self-responsibility, dive-planning, etcetera. A lot of good lessons, much faster than I could have learned them with a group around here. Solo diving has taught me more, faster than anything else I've tried. I'd love to dive with buddies, but I'm also obeying rule #1. I have some non-stroke buddies I'm going to start diving with soon, so I see the solo thing as a temporary stage that I was willing to risk, just for the moment. The fact that I choose to solo dive and accept the extra risks that entails (on Monterey beach dives - whee!) doesn't invalidate the DIR gear configuration. The more I focus on that, the more buddies I gradually convert. "So, Todd, why are you diving that TransPac II you hate so much anyway? Gee, my wing sure is comfortable..." Cam >From: "MHK" <mhkane@pr*.ne*> >To: "Cam Banks" <cam_banks@ho*.co*> >CC: "aqaunaut" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> >Subject: Re: dir bolt snaps >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 22:06:43 -0800 > >From: Cam Banks <cam_banks@ho*.co*> > > > So, the only part of me that is non-DIR (besides solo-diving...) > >Cam, > >This is one of my biggest pet peeve's about DIR. To me you either accept >the system taken as a whole or you don't. Piecemealing the system will >kill >you. The biggest advantage of DIR is that it provides for minimilization. >This is accomplished by eliminating excess gear and replacing it with a >qualified buddy. > >Why are you stripping down your rig and then diving solo??? > >This is not a personal attack on you Cam but it is a very real problem I >see >with others who are willing to accept the stripped down benefits of the >system but aren't realizing that you can't strip your gear down and then >omit one of the most important items in the system. You either accept the >totality or you don't. > >Regards > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.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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