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- Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:19 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
Therein lies the strength of DIR...good buddy skills are more prevalent. There's never been a question there in my mind. Actually its a bit different than that. There's a commonality of training which is not found in other agencies. With pretty much all the other tech/cave agencies quality comes do...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:49 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
There seem to be some misconceptions above with regard to gas selection (ala air is for tires and narcosis issues). So to elaborate on each gas and my understanding of GUE's take on it... I'm not going to discuss why something is not DIR though. Just the standard gases and why they are the way they ...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:50 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
If I'm not diving with my main buddies my way and your way is not standardized in that particular buddy pairing however I would have redundant air in that siituation and you wouldn't. You may choose to simply never dive with anyone who doesn't dive as you do so your system still works. So does mine...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:37 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
No offense but using stories like Dandy Don as a reason not to use a pony or for any other reason is really a strawman argument. Even when I backmounted a pony I still had a SPG that was where I could see it and I checked it from time to time. Getting that narced on air at 120 fsw is because it was...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:40 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
It makes sense to me for a DIR diver not to sling a pony when diving singles within a DIR group. It doesn't make logical common sense to me for that person to be so adament about another group of single divers not slinging ponies if that is there standard approach. I recommend people sling ponys un...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:11 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
Re: DIR: questions and answers
Logic is getting contorted when you say don't dive with a pony bottle. Your buddy is your pony bottle...unless you are diving doubles then your buddy and your doubles are your redundancy. Don't dive with a pony bottle but if you do sling it....don't do something but if you do I have a belief system...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:07 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: DIR: questions and answers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 9135
Re: DIR: questions and answers
Why address recreational diving as a "belief system" rather than just dealing with each issue that comes up with objectivity?. I think this is just your outside perspective. Most of the DIR divers I know put ALOT (sometimes to excess) thought it what they are doing and/or why. Why the nee...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Diving Realities:my two cents
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9457
Re: Solo diving
:rr:gcbryan wrote: Or perhaps, self-reliant brains and since experience doesn't count for much in a benign environment neither would redundant benign experience.
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:25 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Ignore list question
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4887
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:10 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Diving Realities:my two cents
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9457
Re: Solo diving
Except for a redundant air supply and a BUNCH of experience it seems that the solo diver carries the same gear that the buddy team carries. 1) no redundant brains while solo 2) experience doesn't count for much if its in a benign environment. Eventually you may be tasked with something you have nev...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:05 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Diving Realities:my two cents
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9457
Unfortunately, there's usually very little real evidence as to what, exactly, caused a diver to die. It usually boils down to speculation ... which makes it easy to fit it into just about anybody's belief system. Yeah there's generally less speculation when their buddy can describe the incident. Ev...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:10 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Shortest dive story EVER
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1132
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:04 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Diving Realities:my two cents
- Replies: 76
- Views: 9457
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:17 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Hunting Octo's? Is this for real?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10303
On the other hand, I think these critters are smarter than some folks give 'em credit for. One of the first things I noticed when I started scootering is that once you get outside the areas where most people dive, you see a lot more octopus dens. I think they just got tired of all the lights and no...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:16 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Hunting Octo's? Is this for real?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10303
My initial thought on the proposal was that octopus generate more revenue via non-consumptive uses than through consumptive uses. However you are right that portions of WDFW view their role as to promote hunting and fishing opportunties. And portions view their role as stewards of the public resourc...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:54 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Why do divers dive solo for a recreational dive?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 12633
This is because of your limited universe. All the people you would personally feel comfortable with are DIR and of course by definition they don't solo dive. Actually nope, the very few people I know who I feel ok diving solo are not DIR (well at least not my definition). I'm not counting people li...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:18 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Why do divers dive solo for a recreational dive?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 12633
This is actually a problem with technical diving as well. Divers with a few hundred dives who haven't *really* seen the shit hit the fan on OW dives who start pushing into decompression and overheads because nothing has gone wrong so far. The equipment and procedures are getting good enough that yo...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:09 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Why do divers dive solo for a recreational dive?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 12633
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:02 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Hunting Octo's? Is this for real?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10303
Kevin, once again you have spoken in such bizarre, cryptic language I bascially have no idea what you are talking about. Rather than dismiss MY efforts to involve a clearly interested segment of the public in the management of their public trust natural resources through democracy, maybe you should ...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:30 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Why do divers dive solo for a recreational dive?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 12633
People think they understand the risks of solo diving so they blissfully go off believing they are in charge and have mitigated those risks. When in reality they 1) don't have enough experience to actually gauge risk or have any firsthand UW problem management (e.g. never actually switched from a ka...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:05 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Hunting Octo's? Is this for real?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10303
WDFW does not systematically count octopi. Roland Anderson at the Seattle Aqarium has published his volunteer count data here http://www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/Tentacle/Tentacle%2014%20(Cowie%202005).pdf Article starts on page 34. Not exactly oodles of octopi. WDFW is not interested in creating new hab...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:45 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Cove 2 death?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7542
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:32 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Why do divers dive solo for a recreational dive?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 12633
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:19 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Hunting Octo's? Is this for real?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 10303
Re: What about mpa's?
I think I would rather see an expansion of mpa's and enforcement of the laws protecting them. We have run more than one boat out of a protected enviroment more than once. All it takes is a mention in the fishing laws and the willingness to polietly remind the offending boat they are breaking the la...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:28 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Hood-N-Sport drysuit repair
- Replies: 9
- Views: 684