Who disagrees with DIR and why?

[scubadog76]

It's all about preference. I feel the Octo I have breathes great. It can be handed off easilyand allows me to keep breathing while assisting my buddy who may have other problems besides just being out of air. Sure they need air in an Fricken hurry, but I be dmned if they are pulling 2 bodies out of the water. You are not doing your buddy any favors by being starved for air yourself. In a class I took this spring, a buddy and I had to swap our entire gear sets underwater While sharing a reg. It gets pretty intense waiting for that air to come back while at the same time performing a task or 2 to stablize their situation. The best way to avoid this in my eyes is to hand them the octo while your breathing doesn't get interupted. If you re-read the earliest post I put in on this thread, I agreed that a long octo was a good idea. My gripe was giving up a primary reg when your secondary is not in use. You can bash my gear if you want as I feel most of your gear looks like a whoopie cushion with a seat belt wrapped around It. Ultimately,if any diver came up to me waving the out of air signal, I would hand them my octo-every time. If they put their hands on their hips and point at my primary, I'll recognize they are 100% DIR. This thread was about who disagrees with DIR and why. I told you A few issues I have with it still am Convinced I won't ever need to or desire to instill it's practices. I am also convinced that any emergency my buddy has, I will de-fuse in an appropriate an successful manner. Not with a check-list or diving with those who carry a certain C-card, but with common sense, quick decision making. My dive training has been more main stream and there is more likelyhood that I will be diving with someone who has similar reactions to emergencies as well which would be more likely to help me in the case of an emergency (yes I know why DIR divers always dive with DIR divers.....supposedly) Ultimately, I enjoy diving with a large variety of people and don't want my safety in the balance on whether or not I know the secret hand-shake. Take the fricken octo and you owe me a case of beer when we're on land! 8)