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 Guys, I am now hearing about and getting asked about fake DIR classes
being taught by people who have nothing to do with DIR.

  While it would be a big benefit to divers if dive instructors taught
diving using DIR principles, most of these principles are direct violation
of most training agency standards. IANTD expressly disallows most of what we
do, TDI ignores it ( but they have no standards anyway), and NAUI allows it,
but has not yet gotten a grip on it due to the size of that organization.

  On the other hand, the DIR "fundamentals" class offered by GUE is a
proprietary GUE class and any pretense that this can be taught by people who
are not trained to do so by GUE is bullshit. I myself could not even teach
the class, so certainly none of the rest of you who have no contact with us
, no experience doing what we do, no knowledge of the inside workings of
this concept, and no training in how it is done have no business even using
the term "DIR" related to any dive course.

  If anyone out there is telling you they can teach this class and are not a
GUE instructor, they are FOS.

  Again, if all of you people think we are so FOS , then why are you all
scrambling to pretend to do what we do? Is the heat of being wrong for so
long and being proved more wrong every day getting to you, or is this just
one more typical case of "anything for a buck" by the dive instruction
business?

   GUE uses this course to give people a platform to move forward and learn
from. The rest of you teaching "DIR" fundies is like me teaching sumo
wrestling. I have news for all of you who think you have this all figured
out - you don't, and you are not even close.

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