Quote: (Originally Posted by
lizardland)
The big question that I'm not sure if anyone has asked (as life is to short to go through all this thread to check) is who in GUE is going to set the standard? Unless there are a lot of people CCR diving in disguise then who has the expertise to say "this is the way to dive CCR safely"? I don't tend to follow the DIR personality cult but from my limited view there's no-one with current CCR experience. By "current" I mean regularly diving a CCR to the limits that it's use is justifiable (within the DIR outlook).
They're going to have to either get on a steep learning curve, start paying some CCR "strokes" as consultants or the first GUE/CCR course is going to be many years off. JJ may be a very experienced SCR diver but if he stands up and starts telling the world how to dive a CCR any time in the next year or two then I think most people's reaction will end in "off".
I've learned a lot that I've applied to my diving from DIR but the only reason I've even considered any of it is that it has a very strong proven background. Why would I listen to them about CCR?
Cheers,
Stuart
The thread is jumping around a bit, we moved from the fact that there are limitations of doing these 6 hour + bottom times with a SCR, from there to:
High cost and inconvienance of OC/SCR diving. More conviennet to dive a CCR for ocean wreck dives to:
If GUE dont go CCR, they will loose market share, to:
Some GUE trained divers are boring, keep to themsleves
to
No - way can/should GUE develop a CCR Course as they cant possibly know anything about CCR's.
Although I dont have any formal GUE training my take is that its not about the gear, its about team work and I would think that any ccr training would be similar to the RB80 training which from the reports Ive read has a lot of failures/team scenarios, but then again I could be way off base.
Regards
Hugh