muzikbiz22
Contributor
That's why most GUE divers dive with other GUE divers , it's cool to travel half way around the globe to find a GUE community and dive knowing you're going too dive with someone who has trained the same , use standard gas , rec/tech profiles , deco obligations are all the same and thinking on the same page on time.
I understand the standardization aspect, the community aspect, commonality, uniformity, similar/same gear, etc. But playing devils advocate, where's the agility ? What about adversity, diversity, etc ? Where's the "when in Rome, . . ." ? It's a bit like saying "I only stay in Hilton hotels, and eat McDonalds, no matter where I'm at or where I go. I walk in, they know my name, I eat, I sleep, and I go". If I'm going half way around the world to an exotic local, the last place I'm staying is Hilton, and the last thing I'm eating, is McDonalds. Here's a hypothetical; what would you do if you were on a dive trip by yourself, handed rental gear, and you were buddied up with a 77 year old chain-smoking Scottish woman, vacation diver that weighed no more than 90 pounds, and had the all the potential elements of a train wreck ? I can tell what I would do, and DID. I dove with "this person" some years ago, had some of the best dives of my life, made a friend, learned a couple of things from her, and ultimately this lady had the best SAC rate of any diver that I have ever dove with. Something I pride myself on is the ability to adapt. Just me, just sayin'