This makes me wonder

[DRE]

No, it stands for what is accepted by the WKPP and GUE and is a continualy evolving paradigm, but always true and tested in the most extreme conditions. The term DIR stems from an article George wrote in 1995 for Deeptech magazine called "Do It Right or Don't Do It at All"


If the person diving solo claims to be DIR, call him for what s/he is, a stroke (no offense intended, but that's what we call someone with an unsafe attittude - especially if they should know better). The dive flag issue has been brought up in a recent thread. I personally don't dive with a flag as I believe it does not add to my personal safety (I use a diving marker bag to ascend - BTW, you should have seen how close boaters were running to the flags this last weekend at Square Lake - if you believe that you've got a 50ft safety margin around the flag to come up you're sorely mistaken, and there were at least three different classes going on at the same time). Standard GUE policy is to follow local regulations, so their official stance would be to disagree with me, but then again, who cares about my opinion anyways... :