Who disagrees with DIR and why?

[FMT]

You are not real specific here about where you were or who you talked to. From your description I would say that what you saw was a *BIG* DIR dive that REQUIRES staging and safety divers. You are absolutely right that IT IS A TEAM EFFORT and the new divers help with the staging and safety as part of the mentoring process as they build up to actually doing the big dives. Whether they had fun or not is up to them. I would have had fun I'm sure.
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