dir discussions

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The original poster might be to get more people to post on this forum? For a long time all that was on this forum subject was JP's feedback on the 2005 GUE conference.
Not too many things to discuss in this forum about DIR. Most people I know who DIR don't have to defend the system because we know it works.

The concept of DIR is not that common in Minnesota.  If you took a poll of the LDSs in Minnesota, not too many know what DIR is. Heck, not too many LDSs in the USA know what DIR is. Case in point, They may have heard something about DIR but could not tell you what GUE is and the connection to DIR.

The politics in SCUBA is pretty nasty. It is much easier to say something bad about your competitor, it is really difficult to say something nice.

I have been the diving business since 1978. I learned about DIR/GUE from a former student who I have a lot of respect for. He came back from Grand Cayman and dove with a DIR/GUE operation down there. He researched it and we made our decisions on our research. We met the people behind the DIR concept. We agreed with the system and we started training with the DIR concept.

I am a better diver today because of it.

GUE does not have the exclusive on the concept. Some people out there have taken the DIR concept and used it in their own class programs (5th Dimension).

One last thing to throw in this subject. The quality control of GUE for instructor training is one of the highest,  if not the highest in the industry.  If I was 21 again and I had a choice to be an instructor, I would be a GUE instructor.

JIm