Christian,

your post raised some interesting points, if you think about
the process of people walking into a dive shop of the street
and being wowed by the nice glossy pictures and gear hanging
around its not hard to see people get sucked in by the whole scene.

At this point is where they get lost in the bullshit and everything flows 
on from here so its not surprising to see the perpetuated crap that
is carried on through the training agencies, IANTD included.

Just take a look at all the courses they produced to vacuum money
out of your pockets. In a way its obscene. Mount, Gilliam and co
should be ashamed of themselves for allowing the nonsense to
continue on in the light of known better methods and techniques.

I guess they have dug such a big hole they now can't even see light!

Sadly it will all carry on until they get sued out of business, that will
be a great day indeed :-), lets not forget the progress that has been
made in changing peoples attitude and approach and the adoption of
DIR is spreading. I look forward to the day of seeing stickers on shop
windows saying "DIR Compliant"

Bruce


>Is TM? Compare the fatalities!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Christian
>
>PS Personal history: I do not dive DIR (wish I did, don't). Been here
>mostly lurking for the odd year, basically believe in Trey's
>philosophy and quite certainly believe in his passion. Its sad that
>newcomers, without researching it or at least going to the archives,
>so often come out the way they do.
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