"DIR v "Unified Team"?

[iDiveChick]

Ok Guys and Girls,

I first saw a really good article here on the origin of the philosophy and the DIR name, and it went a long way towards further positively reinforcing what little I already knew. Made me glad I had always kept an open mind about it lest I join the ranks of "Internet diving experts"

I have as of late seen more of the term "Unified Team Diving", so I figured I would come to the experts here and ask if you can fill me in on this term....I suspect it might be referencing the same thing without the GUE oversight/influence, but I am not sure, hence the question on the difference if at all.

Thanks all!

Sarah

[Single Tank Numpty]

The three major aspects of DIR are:

1. Correct gas
2. Unified team
3. Something else, which I never remember

Unified team is an essential part of DIR diving and is reinforced in depth right from the fundies course up.

Cheers

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[graham_hk]

Quote: (Originally Posted by Single Tank Numpty)

The three major aspects of DIR are:

1. Correct gas
2. Unified team
3. Something else, which I never remember

Unified team is an essential part of DIR diving and is reinforced in depth right from the fundies course up.

Cheers

Is that photo really you? If it is, will you marry me?

Dude she's got a video up in another thread that was taken at Atlantis

[iDiveChick]

Thanks for the reply.....I wonder why they use the term Unified Team instead of DIR.....

[rjack]

Quote: (Originally Posted by Single Tank Numpty)

Is that photo really you? If it is, will you marry me?

The avatar is not her. iDiveChick's a guy

[Joe Hesketh]

Quote: (Originally Posted by iDiveChick)

I have as of late seen more of the term "Unified Team Diving"

Really? Google gives me 8 hits (4 of them from the same site). This (Unified Team Diving! - The Dive Matrix Forums) probably explains the context in which you may have seen the term used (though there's a good chance that's where you read it anyway). I'm not an "expert" but it's the first time I've heard it used as an umbrella term for a style of diving.

For more background on what the concept of unified team is from GUE's point of view read this introduction gue.com/Equipment/Evolution/index.html if you haven't already.

Joe

[TobyFish]

Unified Team would certainly be a better name than DIR in terms of not immediately putting people on the defensive

[Randy956]

here we go again........

[scorpora]

Quote: (Originally Posted by Randy956)

here we go again........

Do you think it´s time to have a sit and order some food to be delivered in our DIR-ection?

[LCF]

As one of the moderators, and a friend of the founding members of the Dive Matrix BB, let me offer this information. The term "unified team diving" was chosen to create a forum where people who had far more in common than they had differences could communicate. We did not want arguments about whether monkey diving was DIR, or whether one was hopelessly damned for doing the old valve drill, or routing the light cord under the long hose. We wanted a forum where people who dove standardized equipment, standard gases, standardized emergency procedures/protocols, and held themselves to a high standard of diving skills, could all come to talk under the umbrella of what we saw as the core value of the system: The Unified Team.

As we are hashing out on ScubaBoard currently, if you use the term DIR, you get into the issue of who defines it. You guys have had some serious dustups here because Mark Chase posts his ideas -- Some DIR people are far less tolerant than this board. Not using the term DIR allows us to be a little more liberal in defining what points of view we are willing to hear, without having anybody's orthodoxy offended.