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I dive DIR, and my gear is configured as described on pages like
Bentley's and GUE's.  On this list and in the GUE site, GI and others
have stated or implied many times that if you are not following the
system exactly, but are just borrowing elements here and there, you are
not diving DIR.  You might be close, but DIR is an all or nothing
proposition in both inclusions and omissions.

I recently looked at Halcyon's site.  It's about time a manufacturer
took a direct
view toward satisfying the DIR diver.  But if I am right about the
"all-or-nothing" requirement, then some of Halcyon's stuff, which it
seems to market under DIR, is not in fact DIR.  (Note: some pages which
contain images of divers in near-DIR configuration do not actually
mention DIR, so I'm not sure if Halcyon is making a distinction in those
cases.)
Examples:
    1.  What is that on the left side of the belt where nothing but a
D-ring should be?:
            http://www.halcyon.net/mc/06mc.shtml (third pic down)

    2.  What is that where the light canister should be?:
            http://www.halcyon.net/mc/06mc.shtml
            http://www.halcyon.net/
            http://www.halcyon.net/mc/04mc.shtml

    3.   What are those white handles(?):
            http://www.halcyon.net/mc/06mc.shtml (third pic down)

If these pages and images are not intended to describe or depict DIR,
then I guess nothing more need be said.  If they ARE intended to be DIR
images and content, then we have some issues to discuss.  Some DIR
elements may have changed, so I might be wrong about raising such
issues.  After all, due to its origins, the DIR system would appear to
be dictated by the WKPP guys.  So, if they make a change or say
something now falls within DIR, then it is so.  But, configuration
discrepancies
like this should at least be addressed by someone at WKPP, either to let
us know that the things mentioned above are  now acceptable, or to keep
someone from buying something like a waist pouch that appears to be
marketed as DIR but really is not.

Comments? Explanations?

Jim





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