Do It Right.
A phraseword that has become the code of conduct for divers of the Global Underwater Explorers (GUE): a group, and now a diving agency, born from the need to streamline and standardize equipments for underwater cave exploration, promoting the Do It Right (DIR) way of doing things. They swear by the standards that GUE is promoting that they look at divers who are not DIR as DIW (Do It Wrong).
There is a hot topic on that on the forum now. I have been involved in technical diving since the third quarter of 2005. I find that DIR requires lots of redundancies and skills that are overkills, and would only suit a certain kind of diving – cave exploration or deep wreck penetration, for example.
ALL dive agencies have good standards for teaching and promoting dive safety. It is how the instructors convey the lessons, and the students’ comprehension that makes the difference. A good diver is determined by his/her dive experiences. A diver who dives in Sipadan 1,000 times in good visibility is no better than a diver who has 50 dives but dives in very low visibility conditions like in Port Dickson or Pulau Sembilan on a bad day. Equipment brand does not make one a good diver either: there are lots of divers in Sabah who dive using home-made equipment and can dive far better than a Course Director even.
So for you new divers, or those who plan to take up diving soon, do not be conned into being trained by certain agencies, or conned into believing that an ex-commando dive instructor would make the best instructor (commandos are BAD divers – trust me!), or conned by your instructor into buying equipment the moment you complete your open water course: DON’T!
You get more dives, and ask to borrow different equipments from friends…see what you like, try them out – then only you decide. Don’t waste thousands of Ringgit and at the end, you don’t quite like what you’ve bought.
I Do It My Way!
SeaDemon Says 