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This configuration is for open water and slight variations are necessary to keep excess gear off the diver. The pouch on the right side where the light should be, is a utility pocket, good for sea snips, wet notes, spool reel, double ender..etc. Also good place to put long hose under to keep it close to body like a canister light does. If you don't need a canister light don't take it. White handles are for dropable weights placed on the harness, close to the most bouyant area on a diver. Dropable weights are necessary in o/w when diving wet in the event you loose the BC. None of these things would be out of line for DIR if you know why they are a solution to a problem most divers never think of............ Mike At 06:19 PM 01/22/2000 -0500, nforcer1 wrote: >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 > > > > > >-- >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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