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Esse, he is not right on the one, he is once again totally clueless here: Bobby McGuire died because he broke one of the main rules of DIR gas diving - he dove unmarked tanks and breathed the wrong one. Nobody has been killed because they did things my way. Where the most people have been killed is doing things that violate our rules, and that is a fact. Bobby never got a chance to be a DIR diver, and that is too bad, he was as tough as it gets. -----Original Message----- From: Esse [mailto:enordesjo@ho*.co*] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 3:14 PM To: Aquanaut Mail Subject: Re: Filtering MJB Let me modify slightly.... 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: A System as DIR takes over where the other systems end due to the fact that other systems have no place in the technical arena and thus offer a philosophy to continue to develop as adives in the safest possible manner. Myth 7: DIR is a system for everybody. Reality: DIR has evolved from being, out of the equipment perpective, a system for pure technical diving to one that you can adapt from day one in your open water course. No other system has that flexibility or simplicity. Myth 6: DIR is a system based on experience and proven facts. Reality: DIR has proven over its lifetime that its a system based on common sense and experience and is the system of choice for most technical diver. Myth 5: DIR is a new movement in scuba that will grow and someday surpass other systems. Reality: Tech diving has continued to grow, and most training agencies have started, at least out of a equipment viewpoint to adapt to the system known as DIR. Myth 4: DIR is practised by the BEST divers in the world. Reality: DIR is practised and adapted to an evergrowing community of new and old technical divers, which is apparent both on or off-PC. Myth 3: DIR uses safe procedures, both in and out of the water. Reality: The DIR philosophy is to strive for the safest possible applications of the procedures around diving , be mental and physical fitness, equipment setup ,group and mission targets.. Myth 2: DIR is useful for cave diving, but can be applied to ALL forms of diving. Reality: DIR is apllicable to all kinds of technical and recreational diving and can due to its basic simplicity be adapted towards diffrent diving environments. Myth 1: DIR has had no fatalities or accidents. Reality: All agencies, philosophies, followings will have accidents. Even DIR. Statistics catch up. So out of 8 you proved right in 1. Hardly a track record. Hardly worth listening to. You are part of a dying dinosaur breed. Things evolve. DIR is one of those evolvments. Just go with it. Esse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael J. Black" <mjblackmd@ya*.co*> To: "Aquanaut Mail" <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Sent: den 23 maj 2001 05:57 Subject: Re: Filtering MJB > Filter this: > > DIR: Myths & Realities (updated) > http://x62.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=623789486 > > Google acquired Deja, but the link still works, and the message still > lasts...forever. > > MJB :-))) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices > http://auctions.yahoo.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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