Quote: (Originally Posted by
alunnewsome)
what I'm asking is, would you guys, as DIR divers, dive with other DIR divers who have the skills, but not necessarily the GUE 'tickets'?
I would, yes, for my normal recreational diving - ie, non-deco, <30m diving. My impression was that the DIR guideline was 'don't dive with people who have unsafe attitudes', not 'only dive with people from the same training agency as you'. There is presumably some personal interpretation of 'safe attitude'.
I also dive with lots of other divers who are good buddies and who I would happily trust my wellbeing to. I've been diving with them for years, many of them taught me to dive and are cracking good divers, and I thoroughly enjoy diving with them!
I'd tend to do an OW-level dive to check someone I didn't know at all and make sure they weren't going to scare me into next week.
Tim