Posted by Maddiver on September 14, 2001 at 09:15:19:
Below I have included the 'verbal diarrhea' of GLnSD which seems to widely propogate itself and disolution new divers. First and foremost, I did a quick check of his statement that 'lack of experience' of GUE instructors couldn't be more unfounded. GUE's web site gives the c/v of instructors with the average # of dives for GUE diver instructors (I simply looked at N america stats) at averaging ~2000+. Further examination reflects that a great number of these dives are under 'extreme expossure' conditions or mix, cave, deep wreck, stage dives.......Where oh where GLnSD do I find individuals with more experience that have 'walked the walk', as I am now convinced you simply 'Talk the talk' and half-assed at that.
>There is no way around the fact that many of skills that
GUE/DIR tries to teach are dangerous to the student.
And in fact given the relative lack of experience of most DIR/GUE instructors
the whole programm may be dangerous.
The attitude of DIR divers is NOT good for the dive industry
Bottom line DIR/GUE is a failing marketing program for Halcyon equipment, the only
reason we have not heard of deaths among the DIR crowd YET is that there are so few
people who fall for the BS..........