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  1. #1
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    Default Whatever happened to the rules of DIR diving?

    Hey folks,

    the other day I had drinks with a couple of GUE Divers in french cave country. I believe they were GUE Cave 2 and Tec 1 trained. Turns out, they had never heard of the first rule of DIR diving and they didn't even know what a stroke was. They had also never heard of GI.

    So, as a gue/DIR diver you can dive with strokes now? Sounds like they made a 180 on the most important rule they had. I realise that this might have happened years ago but I just learned about it. I'm not trying to start anything, I'm honestly suprised that the No 1 rule was dropped and I wonder why and when. Does anyone know what happened? I'm asking here as I usually don't have much contact to DIR people as they always roll up in groups and mostly just talk amongst themselves.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bent View Post
    Does anyone know what happened? I'm asking here as I usually don't have much contact to DIR people as they always roll up in groups and mostly just talk amongst themselves.
    Sounds like these folks might be exercising Rule #1.


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    GUE has made significant efforts to distance themselves from GI3 and his "rules". These rules have lead to significant bad blood between GUE and other agencies and their divers. GUE is a kinder, gentler agency now. In fact, instructors caught using the "s" word have had threats made to have their instructor card yanked. Your last sentence at the end regarding how you don't communicate with DIR people is exactly proof of how the old guard made people feel versus how the new guard wishes you'd feel.


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    Evolution is more than just a theory. At some point, even slime mold dragged themselves out of the primordial ooze.

    "Have you ever noticed
    When you're feeling really good
    There's always a pigeon
    That'll come shiat on your hood?" John Prine 4-7-2020

    "Into the blue again; in the silent water
    Under the rocks, and stones; there is water underground" Talking Heads

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    Yeah . . .

    The previous three replies pretty well summed it up.

    Jeff Rouse
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    My only familiarity with the term is from seeing people on the Internet discussing what DIR used to be like long ago.


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    I’ll just be over here with the rest of the DIR Rules Preservation Society members.


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    Quote Originally Posted by PfcAJ View Post
    I?ll just be over here with the rest of the DIR Rules Preservation Society members.
    Care to elaborate on the membership rules, requirements, and process for joining?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Draker View Post
    Care to elaborate on the membership rules, requirements, and process for joining?


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    If you have to ask you can’t be a member.

    This is the way.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Draker View Post
    Care to elaborate on the membership rules, requirements, and process for joining?


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    I thought you were already a member.... was sure this is what fed your disgust of my diving in shorts and a t-shirt all the time

    Why yes that was me in shorts and a t-shirt oops, a drysuit @ the 700' marker


 

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