alternatives to GUE?

[EmptyTank]

What are the alternatives to GUE for cave or wreck training?

 

[ScubaSam]

What are the alternatives to GUE for cave or wreck training?

Click on the link which breaks down GUE course descriptions about Recreational, Technical and Cave training. GUE Course Descriptions | Global Underwater Explorers or start a new thread in the DIR forum with your question about GUE's training.

Best not to hijack OP's thread about his Primer class this spring.

 

[EmptyTank]

It's not a hijack, I just don't have access to any GUE instructors.

 

[Rainer]

Where are you located? Several (many) GUE instructors travel around the world to teach.

 

[ScubaSam]

What are the alternatives to GUE for cave or wreck training?

It's not a hijack, I just don't have access to any GUE instructors.

The link I posted will take you to the GUE site which lists instructors and the classes they have scheduled.

Or you can start a thread in this forum to ask your specific GUE question about the GUE training you're curious about.

OP started this thread to ask about a Primer or Fundies class. Now he is assembling a Primer class for the spring so your question would be better served in its own thread.

 

[TSandM]

Empty Tank, there are a bunch of other technical dive training agencies. TDI, IANTD, UTD and NAUI for technical diving, NACD, NSS-CDS, TDI, IANTD, UTD and NAUI for cave diving are ones that jump to my mind. I don't know which agencies offer a specific wreck penetration curriculum, but I know Steve Lewis of TDI does, and Andrew Georgitsis of UTD.

GUE is only one very small corner of the technical and cave diving world, but some of us like it

 

[lamont]

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[Scott L]

It's not a hijack, I just don't have access to any GUE instructors.

They are conveniently located right at the caves...

 

[rjack321]

Empty Tank where are you located?

 

[gkndivebum]

[...] I don't know which agencies offer a specific wreck penetration curriculum, but I know Steve Lewis of TDI does, and Andrew Georgitsis of UTD.[...]

Just FYI:

NAUI Technical offers two levels of wreck penetration training; the first level qualifies the successful candidate in the planning and execution of wreck penetration dives not requiring stage decompression at depths less than 130 FSW. The second level qualifies the successful candidate in the planning and execution of wreck penetration dives when using mixed gasses and/or planned stage decompression.

[I don't teach either of these courses since I have zero penetrable wrecks in my local diving environment to keep my skills sharp]