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From: "John Adair" <jadair@so*.co*>
To: "'Chris Tellers'" <chris_tellers@ho*.co*>, <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Subject: RE: DIR Training question
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 13:32:19 -0400
Janet Sitchin
email:jsuw@ao*.co*

She is DIR and I do believe she teaches basic scuba.

John Adair

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Tellers [mailto:chris_tellers@ho*.co*]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 3602 12:45 AM
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
Subject: DIR Training question


I've been diving for about a year and a half and have recently gotten
interested in the new worlds that technical (especially cave) diving has to
offer.  In researching training agencies, instructors and the like I came
across the DIR concept and I must say that it makes a hell of a lot of sense
to me.  Seems to deal with problems I've noticed with the ways I was taught
to configure my gear and position myself in my NAUI courses.  Since I've
repositioned my weight and tanks to make myself level and stopped flutter
kicking on the bottom I'm much more efficient and no longer the standard
Florida reef destroying machine most divers are.



Anyway, my new girlfriend wants to get certified to dive, so I thought I'd
find a class that could get her going with DIR from day one.  In looking at
the GUE site, however, I see that the DIR Fundamentals course requires open
water certification + 25 dives.  What's up with that?!  Given the
counter-intuitive, unnatural character of scuba diving, why not encourage
new divers to start out DIR from the beginning rather than insisting they
spend months learning bad habits and doing it wrong?



I know this isn't a question about technical diving, but given that the DIR
philosophy is that the fundamentals apply to rec diving as well, I thought
I'd ask it here.



Sign me, Mystified in Florida.



Chris Tellers
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