DIR- GUE Structure of doubles primer

[jborg]

You don't get a new certificate for completing it, as you're still certified to do the same things you were prior to the course.

 

[MoorishK]

You don't get a new certificate for completing it, as you're still certified to do the same things you were prior to the course.

So is there still pass/fail/provisional rating?

 

[Lorenzoid]

So is there still pass/fail/provisional rating?

No. The only outcome of the course is that you have taken the course. No card. No rating.

 

[MoorishK]

No. The only outcome of the course is that you have taken the course. No card. No rating.

So it wont allow you to rent doubles?

 

[Lorenzoid]

So it wont allow you to rent doubles?

Is there really a dive shop that refuses to rent doubles unless you present a card that says you dive doubles?

 

[MoorishK]

Is there really a dive shop that refuses to rent doubles unless you present a card that says you dive doubles?

Isn't doubles a specialty equipment that requires special training?

 

[tmassey]

Isn't doubles a specialty equipment that requires special training?

Well… Seeing as PADI does not offer such a specialty, how would the average diver get one, and therefore how would the average dive shop be able to require one?

Besides: it’s highly unlikely that an “average dive shop“ has a set of doubles to rent you in the first place.

Doubles are not rocket science. In my experience, the vast majority of people who get into doubles are not starting with a class. Not for their first dive in doubles!

Which is not to say that classes like GUE Fundamentals or TDI Intro to Tech are not very valuable for a diver wanting to go into technical diving. I’m just saying: putting a pair of doubles on your back and swimming around in extremely sheltered conditions probably does not require paying an instructor to watch over you.

Having said that, for people who don’t have a strong community of technical divers to lean on, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with paying an instructor for a day of their time and having them help you be introduced to it. I know I personally have been mentored by skilled non-instructor divers, and I’ve also paid an instructor to act as a mentor.

But can we please not chain ourselves to the idea that all scuba skills, no matter how tiny, must be blessed by a paid instructor and result in an additional piece of plastic added to our collection?

 

[MoorishK]

But can we please not chain ourselves to the idea that all scuba skills, no matter how tiny, must be blessed by a paid instructor and result in an additional piece of plastic added to our collection?

That's very true.

 

[diver257a]

Ohh. Do you get an certification at the end?

In 2014, I did not get a certification card or any other documentation which confirmed successful completion of the primer by me. In 2015, I emailed GUE Headquarters about this matter, and was told the following - "Primer courses (Doubles, Drysuit, and GUE Primer) do not result in certifications."

Before I logged in today to write this post, I checked my GUE account and was very surprised to find that I now have a certification for the Doubles Primer. I will emailing GUE Headquarters in the new year to asked if I can buy a hardcopy of the certification.

 

[happy-diver]

I hope that you all realise that every time you manhandle manifolded tanks to a pool or for a two dive primer
that means that inversely you are sacrificing your ability over your lifetime to conduct those dives in the wilds
as you will have unnecessarily worn yourself out not diving