kwesler
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Look friends, can't we keep at least one thread a civil discussion of an interesting question?!
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I could go on for many pages and have in the past.
MikeFerrara once bubbled...
Buddy/team diving skills are usually only given lip service.
There is no one on this board that can answer that question... but if you really want an answer it would probably be better to ask it at www.gue.com ...you might want to leave off the last part as it makes your inquiry sound less than sincere.Epinephelus once bubbled...
Anyone out there associated with GUE that can answer this part of the original question? Does GUE intend to join the RSTC or charge off on their own?
E. moria
As far as I know all entry level courses call for buddy diving. If it isn't being taught and practiced during training that's an error - it's certainly not the way I read the standard. Our shop requires *lots* of buddy diving practice in addition to the standard drills; we teach being a buddy team - and we have our students dive as buddy teams doing buddy stuff for the lion's share of the time spent on their six OW qual dives.Spectre once bubbled...
How many training dives in OW, AOW, etc, truely have buddy teams, and how many are more follow the leader? Sure, OW drills are done as buddies, but after you've followed the leader to a point where you all keel down, you buddy up, do the drills with the person next to you, then break buddy formations and go back to follow the leader.