Jardine
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I am looking down the road to more diving education. I am taking the PADI rescue diver class next month and would like to follow it this spring with the PADI Divemaster course. The LDS closest to me is a PADI shop and I would like to work as a Divemaster to build experience and to get in the water more often. Free fills wouldn't hurt either. I have been reading about tech diving and have look into the different classes available in my area and was wonder if there is any advantage of the GUE Tech class route vs. the TDI Tech courses.
There is a shop about 1.5 hours away that teaches all levels of TDI courses. The only GUE instructor in my state, Utah, teaches GUE Rec 1 and Fundies only. After getting my tech pass with GUE, I would have to travel to take the Tech 1 course. I looked at the GUE website and I believe the nearest instructor for anything after Fundies is all the way across the US in Florida.
I've looked at the curriculum for the TDI classes and the GUE Tech 1 course and it appears that the outline and skills demonstrated in GUE Tech 1 would be mostly the equivalent of the TDI Intro to Tech, Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox, and Decompression Procedures. I then glanced at the GUE Tech 2 outline and found many similarities between it and the TDI Extended Range and Trimix courses. I did notice that the GUE prerequisites for Tech 2 had minimum number of tech dives, Must have a minimum of 200 dives, with at least fifty dives on double tanks/cylinders; twenty-five of these should have utilized a single decompression cylinder. I didnt see this for TDI but I didnt take the time to go back and add up all the dives that would be done throughout the different courses. Im sure there are many differences and I dont want to nit pick about minute differences. Would it be fair to say that if one diver took the TDI route and another took the GUE route to the levels I mentioned, would their skill sets/qualifications/technical diving knowledge be comparable? It may seem that going the GUE route may have the bigger bang for the buck even having to travel to Florida for the tech classes although Im not sure how much the GUE classes would run me.
There is a shop about 1.5 hours away that teaches all levels of TDI courses. The only GUE instructor in my state, Utah, teaches GUE Rec 1 and Fundies only. After getting my tech pass with GUE, I would have to travel to take the Tech 1 course. I looked at the GUE website and I believe the nearest instructor for anything after Fundies is all the way across the US in Florida.
I've looked at the curriculum for the TDI classes and the GUE Tech 1 course and it appears that the outline and skills demonstrated in GUE Tech 1 would be mostly the equivalent of the TDI Intro to Tech, Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox, and Decompression Procedures. I then glanced at the GUE Tech 2 outline and found many similarities between it and the TDI Extended Range and Trimix courses. I did notice that the GUE prerequisites for Tech 2 had minimum number of tech dives, Must have a minimum of 200 dives, with at least fifty dives on double tanks/cylinders; twenty-five of these should have utilized a single decompression cylinder. I didnt see this for TDI but I didnt take the time to go back and add up all the dives that would be done throughout the different courses. Im sure there are many differences and I dont want to nit pick about minute differences. Would it be fair to say that if one diver took the TDI route and another took the GUE route to the levels I mentioned, would their skill sets/qualifications/technical diving knowledge be comparable? It may seem that going the GUE route may have the bigger bang for the buck even having to travel to Florida for the tech classes although Im not sure how much the GUE classes would run me.