DIR

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I've spoke with both shops briefly myself on DIR in the past and got the same reaction as you described from them. Most of their disagreements were with Deco. I think GUDC and SD&T teach some things in common with DIR when it comes to "tech" diving but again I'd venture to guess most of that is in gear configuration and definately not in the Deco Procedures.


I can't speak for GUDC, but as far as deco is concerned at SD&T, they use EAN50 and O2 for deco, include deep stops in the profiles, slow ascents, taking back gas breaks, slow ascents from 20ft to the surface, don't do any of the EAN80 crap, mix proper gasses, and even use Decoplanner and Dplan to calculate profiles. What's not DIR about that?
BTW, their is no such thing as DIR deco - there's only proper deco, developed by Bill Hamilton and Erik Baker (too name a few) and adapted and tried out by WKPP people (which goes much further back than just Wakulla III).