DIR gear questions

"Charlie Hammond" wrote

> The general impression I get is that some/many people are so turned off
> by George Irvine's attitude that they won't even look at some of the
> things in DIR which they might otherwise find to be good.

Probably some, but not all. The most interesting thing about the debates of
old is how many people were called stupid because they found something to
like in the DIR concepts. For the most part, it wasn't George doing the
criticizing, but damn, when he did, you knew you'd been criticized.

> George's book is (A) poorly written, (B) mostly attitude, (C) not really
> a good, understandable explaination of DIR (in the sections where he does
> actually try to describe/explain it), and, to be sure, (D) way overpriced.

George wrote a book?

George is an exceptional diver, but not an exceptional communicator.

Lee

Lee Bell wrote:
>
> George is an exceptional diver, but not an exceptional communicator.

I'd have to say that depends on his mood. I came across a site recently
that had collected a bunch of his more extensive posts. I found them to
be exceptionally clear. They assume an understanding of tech diving, of
course, but given that, they really filled in some gaps for me.

"Whistler" wrote

>> George is an exceptional diver, but not an exceptional communicator.

> I'd have to say that depends on his mood. I came across a site recently
> that had collected a bunch of his more extensive posts. I found them to
> be exceptionally clear. They assume an understanding of tech diving, of
> course, but given that, they really filled in some gaps for me.

I guess opinions vary. I've seen only one thing he's credited with writing
that I thought was well written. My guess was that somebody ghost wrote it
for him. It was his story, for sure, but it didn't look like his words.

Lee