| Don't get too hung up on kit. Start by diving with a strong sense of team and environmental awareness, dive to no more than 30m, sort out trim and bouyancy, read "The Fundumentals of Better Diving".
If it makes sense and you want to take this further then when you start to acquire your own kit buy DIR compliant stuff - so don't buy a dive computer, buy a bottom timer (cheaper), don't buy split fins buy Jetfins or Turtles instead and put spring straps on them. Don't buy a BCD but a wing and backplate (often about the same money), when you buy regs get Scubapro MK25 or Apeks DS4 and a 2.13m primary reg hose, buy a simple contents gauge instead of a more expensive console....
This doesn't make you a DIR diver but it makes you a diver who doesn't have to throw their kit away if they decide to go DIR in the future.
HTH |