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Another log for the fire, boys and girls. Enjoy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message was forwarded to you from Deja.com by mjblackmd@ya*.co*. Deja.com offers free consumer information, including ratings and reviews on thousands of products and services. Before you buy, visit http://www.deja.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (beginning of original message) Subject: DIR: Myths & Realities (updated) From: mjblackmd@my*.co* Date: 2000/05/15 Newsgroups: rec.scuba Myth 8: DIR and its proponents have saved many student divers from certain danger and possible death, as taught by all other training agencies. Reality: No agency is trying to kill you. The agencies that have been in the business longest have enviable safety records, a testimonial to their quality of instruction, given the inherent dangers involved in scuba. To review (in reverse order): Myth 7: DIR is a system for everybody. Reality: Personal preference is the system for everybody. You have the right to choose DIR or the right to choose another system, or to incorporate useful parts of any system that suits your needs. No single system will ever be the panacea for everybody. Myth 6: DIR is a system based on experience and proven facts. Reality: Although many DIR divers have experience in technical diving, there are many among them who extrapolate facts to the point of distortion, confusion, and lack of truth. The message soon becomes lost in all the noise. Myth 5: DIR is a new movement in scuba that will grow and someday surpass other systems. Reality: Tech diving will continue to grow, but the training agencies that will attract the most students are the ones with time-honored teaching skills, including respect, patience, and avoidance of name-calling such as DIR's infamous "stroke." Myth 4: DIR is practised by the BEST divers in the world. Reality: The BEST divers in the world are too busy diving and conducting research to be sitting around posting to techdiver, rec.scuba, the GUE list, Rodale's, or any other newsgroup in cyberspace. The BEST divers in the world, with few exceptions, are conspicuously absent from these lists. Myth 3: DIR uses safe procedures, both in and out of the water. Reality: DIR uses procedures that do not comply with guidelines established by NOAA and the U.S. Navy, including flying only three hours after a deep deco dive, in-water recompression for decompression accidents, diving well beyond recreational limits and simultaneously striving to shorten decompression times, exercising shortly after diving, plus others which are hardly safe. Myth 2: DIR is useful for cave diving, but can be applied to ALL forms of diving. Reality: Very few people use DIR outside of cave diving, because the system is inflexible and impractical. In fact DIR teaches using NO COMPUTER, only a bottom timer, hardly a practical recommendation nowadays. Myth 1: DIR has had no fatalities or accidents. Reality: Bobby McGuirre, a WKPP/DIR diver, died while diving DIR in a cave, and represents at least one accident DIR cannot deny. MJB :-))) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy. (end of original message) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ You can view this message and the related discussion by following this link: http://www.deja.com/dnquery.xp?search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&recnum=%3c8fprpt$ 7hd$1@nn*.de*.co*%3e%231/1 We hope to see you soon at Deja.com. Before you buy. http://www.deja.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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