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BSAC - you've gotta be joking! Mark -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Voss [mailto:mat.voss@t-*.de*] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 05:52 To: Chris Tellers Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: DIR Training question Chris, for doing that, (starting from day one), you need a sufficient number of customers ( let alone Instructors). Customers who are able, and willing to count to more than three. For most other branches of diving instruction seem to be more attractive, affording less self reflection, less commitment, less understanding, giving faster instant satisfaction. Though some ( perhaps NAUI, YMCA,CMAS, BSAC,) offer superior training, to convert to DIR principles wholeheartedly may need a history of failures and insight into what went wrong with prior education. Hard stuff for most beginners. Matthias Chris Tellers schrieb: > > 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 > -- > 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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