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Mexico is counter-intuitive. The more experienced you are the more benefit you get from a good guide. The well travelled and more famous caves are relatively easy to dive yourself and are all pretty amazing. But, you are never going to see some of the better and more unique stuff if you...

I suppose right after getting certified you need to get the dives in. GUE specifically covers this with the dive requirement between cave 1 and 2. Once you have the skills it is just diving. I took a 10 year break without using doubles or a dry suit Second cave dive back was a double stage...

never seen that but the thin neoprene seal protectors should prevent that

Skills are the same once you have them. I usually only cave dive once a year. I often stay for a month but it still isn’t that many cave dives.

If you are focused on learning the skills and not the cert you will be fine and I suspect can easily find a GUE instructor to work with you. If all you care about is the tech pass and minimizing costs, and you lack the necessary talent for an immediate pass it will not be a pleasant process for...

For almost everyone having the weight across your back is the optimum location. It should only take small amounts of weight shift to tweak your horizontal trim. I would suggest diving with a GUE instructor or experienced diver before trying to solve what is likely a technique issue with...

This is why the DIR forum is dead. You get terrible advice here. Push button lights have failure risks that are not necessary to take, particularly for a backup. They will never be DIR. same for over volted bulbs. Yes it makes them brighter but it increases the risk of a failure when...

While the trolls were an issue the bigger problem was the fly by idiocy pitched as dir advice in the pre opt in days. I was off the board for over a decade. I assumed that the dir discussions had just moved to another forum.

Originally the right pocket was small and only held wet notes. That was for a probably unnecessary streamlining reason since prop wash is on that side. Once it became a larger pocket one reason it was safety items is because to use any of those things you are coming off the trigger and...

I haven’t spoken to Danny in a while. The last I heard he was still in Mexico but not in the Yucatán. His kids are in California so I suspect he spends some time there.

Small snap on the right side of the Goodman handle as normal. Small loop of bungee attached at the end of the battery pack. Don’t leave the double ender on it. It adds weight and just gets in the way. Clip it on when needed.

He left Zero Gravity and moved but pre-COVID he did travel to the area and teach. While that may have changed recently you could try him via his GUE email.

Using the small bungee loop and a double ender is the better technique now. Prior to the bungee loops, that is what was done. Both are better than sticking it on a helmet and blinding teammates.

Until you get to the point that safety bottles are a necessity that are getting placed in advance of a dive, you should always use the stage and keep the extra gas in your doubles if there is a need or desire to dive more conservative gas limits. I can’t think of a penetration dive that I have...

There are more little things you have to do to manage gas that compound significantly if you have any kind of issue. Newer divers are more likely to cause a total silt out etc. no need to add that extra risk of managing gas. New cavers have no business being in passages that need side mount...

The above sums it all up pretty well. I don’t qualify as a dive god but my only GUE card is T2. Of course in 1998 that was a result of a conversation where JJ incredulously asked if I really still didn’t have a trimix cert since many of us started diving mix before there was much formal...

As others have said after going under the can light you simple push any excess hose into the waist strap until the remaining length is appropriate. My wife is 5’ and has no issues doing this with or without a can light. My kids are a bit shorter and generally only use a 5’ hose but that is...

The basic skills are all the same. As long as you are a competent diver I wouldn’t stress a number. I only cave dive once or twice a year for a few weeks max. Heck I took a 10 year break and was doing multi stage scooter dives on my first trip back. Only other diving is one or two...

That is the only way to dive them.

PfcAJ answered the question. I don't really use the local stores much now, but unless something has changed there are not any that cater to GUE. My advice would be to ignore anything a dive store in Houston says about DIR.