Who disagrees with DIR and why?

[tpscuba]

Lonny I agree with some of their ideas, I think they are really good and some is a little over kill. The long alternate raped around the neck where when some one is out of air you give them your primary and then you take the one from around the neck and breath off it. On a trip with 18 hardcore DIR divers and 3 passive Dir divers I asked about this and they said that in an out of air the person is more likely to grab the reg from your mouth and this way the alt. is close to your mouth to obtain. I discussed this with my son-in-law at christmas, he was a dive master on boats and resorts for 8 years and had people that were on his guided tours that he had to share air with and never did they take the reg from his mouth they either showed him their SPG than he gave them the alt. but the majority just took the alt from him. In the few cases I ran into on trips people just grabbed my alternate and none of these were my buddy.
DIR as I understand it is diving safely staying with your buddy or group of buddies plan the dive and dive the plan This group I was with did good planning but once in the water they were all over leaving buddies and coming up after their dive seeing if the buddy was up too. (1/2 an hour or more later)  I don't know the fitness part of it but there were 3 in the group from this shop along with the instructor that was so out of shape they worried me.
Lastly as a group with the exception of one or two if you weren't DIR you were just a second class diver. As far as equipment over all we all have what we like but I watched and helped a few (even though I was 2nd class) get into their BCD. Myself with the injuries I have my body won't let me contort it to get into these harnesses. The way I see it we are all out there to have fun and as long as you are having fun keep on and I will still be happy self and help if I can (they did say thank you when I helped them with their gear)