Roger Hobden
Contributor
So I have plans to take the GUE Fundamentals course next year, and am in the process of making purchase decisions based on the required equipment.
I have found it very hard, up till now, to get a clear answer about the possibility of using backplate/ wings other then the Halcyon brand for the course.
I asked this question in the recent past on ScubaBoard, and the main answer I got here was: "ask your instructor".
Which I did.
And the only advice I got from the GUE instructors here in Canada was "buy Halcyon". Despite many suggestions of various brands and models, all where turned down, with no other choices but Halcyon.
Like Ford used to say a century ago, you can buy a car of any colour as long as it's black.
So, in theory, you could sign up to the course with other brands/models, but in practice you can't ...
And then yesterday I am told on one of the social media forums that one or many owners of Halcyon are also administrators of GUE ...
If this information reveals itself to be true, I find it problematic that such a disclosure is not made explicitly clear in large and bold letters on all the relevant forums of GUE.
I still look forward to take the course eventually, but I must say that this new (for me) development is quite disappointing.
I have found it very hard, up till now, to get a clear answer about the possibility of using backplate/ wings other then the Halcyon brand for the course.
I asked this question in the recent past on ScubaBoard, and the main answer I got here was: "ask your instructor".
Which I did.
And the only advice I got from the GUE instructors here in Canada was "buy Halcyon". Despite many suggestions of various brands and models, all where turned down, with no other choices but Halcyon.
Like Ford used to say a century ago, you can buy a car of any colour as long as it's black.
So, in theory, you could sign up to the course with other brands/models, but in practice you can't ...
And then yesterday I am told on one of the social media forums that one or many owners of Halcyon are also administrators of GUE ...
If this information reveals itself to be true, I find it problematic that such a disclosure is not made explicitly clear in large and bold letters on all the relevant forums of GUE.
I still look forward to take the course eventually, but I must say that this new (for me) development is quite disappointing.