How Long Have You Been DIR Certified?

[DRE]

Allright,

there's no secret handshake, secret society or anything like that. DIR is a set of skills, a mindset and an attittude towards diving, which GUE teaches. Upon passing the class, the GUE instructor deems that you have the necessary skills to pass the GUE requirements. However, this does not mean that you automatically have the correct mindset, which is much harder to guage. For example, you pass the DIRF class, but after that you go back to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, diving deep on air and breathing showerhead regulators - so you definitely don't have the correct mindset if you were to do so as you just showed the message of the class did not sink in. If a GUE instructor finds you diving like this he has the right to revoke your card as you just showed you don't believe in following DIR protocol and safety regulations.
Also, it is possible to find DIR training outside of GUE, but the problem is that a lot of instructors claim to be DIR to cash in on the current demand for DIR training without knowing the ins and outs of it all. I did a ton of research on the topic, asked George a myriad of questions (which he all answered very promptly), but it was only until I took the DIRF class that all the pieces fell into place and that I realized there was a lot more to it then I ever realized (and that's just at the Fundamentals level).

Does this clarify things?