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From: "Esse" <enordesjo@ho*.co*>
To: "Aquanaut Mail" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: Re: Filtering MJB
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 06:01:12 +0200
Trey
Thanks for clarifying, I dont have knowledge of the details, so couldnt be
too sure about that one.
So the myths are wrong in 8 out of 8.
/esse

----- Original Message -----
From: "Trey" <trey@ne*.co*>
To: "Esse" <enordesjo@ho*.co*>; "Aquanaut Mail" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: den 24 maj 2001 02:40
Subject: RE: Filtering MJB


>
> 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 :-)))
> >
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