Verifying dives

[David Novo]

With SSI, we have a responsible diver program. I have a canister with reasonable volume in my wetsuit. If I need to pee (we have a specialty course to learn not to but it can happen), I am also trained so that I can adjust my buoyancy. At the end of the dive, we bring the canister to a special facility that treats our urine and turns it into drinkable water. A bit like the suits they have in Dune. 0 pollution, 0 waste. 100% recyclable. Does GUE do that ?

I have been trained by both and I would bet there are less coral-kicking specialist divers trained by GUE than by SSI.

Having said this, I know some good SSI instructors that focus on buoyancy and trim. One is an instructor of both agencies.

 

[Dody]

I have been trained by both and I would bet there are less coral-kicking specialist divers trained by GUE than by SSI.

Of course. SSI has probably 100 times the number of students GUE has. And charges 10 times less. So GUE is superior in training. But they do not recycle pee.
Edit: it is a joke ok. Don’t want the usual suspects saying that it is a flaw in my DM training.

 

[David Novo]

So GUE is superior in training. But they do not recycle pee.

Unfortunately, unlike fish and other sea creatures, they do not

 

[OTF]

Once you go FULLY closed-circuit you never go back

 

[Dody]

Once you go FULLY closed-circuit you never go back

I am not a cave diver and I don’t do deco. In fact, my longest dive was 80 minutes. I don’t need diapers .

 

[David Novo]

Of course. SSI has probably 100 times the number of students GUE has. And charges 10 times less.

I meant in relative terms. SSI OW costs c. 2x GUE Rec 1. The latter has twice the amount of confined water training and 50% more open water dives.

 

[Centrals]

With SSI, we have a responsible diver program. I have a canister with reasonable volume in my wetsuit. If I need to pee (we have a specialty course to learn not to but it can happen), I am also trained so that I can adjust my buoyancy. At the end of the dive, we bring the canister to a special facility that treats our urine and turns it into drinkable water. A bit like the suits they have in Dune. 0 pollution, 0 waste. 100% recyclable. Does GUE do that ?

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
To turn urine into drinkable water! I am pretty sure there is no such facility exist in SE Asia at the moment.
Desalination? Bad or good?

 

[Dody]

I meant in relative terms. SSI OW costs c. 2x GUE Rec 1. The latter has twice the amount of confined water training and 50% more open water dives.

Twice is an understatement. Before I realized that GUE was a bunch of anti cuban cigars ayatollahs, and under the advise of @ginti, I planned to do fundies. Just the plane ticket in cattle class (Lord, protect me from evil) and the accommodation was 3 times SSI.

 

[Dody]

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
To turn urine into drinkable water! I am pretty sure there is no such facility exist in SE Asia at the moment.
Desalination? Bad or good?

Are you using my countryman Lavoisier against me?

 

[David Novo]

Twice is an understatement. Before I realized that GUE was a bunch of anti cuban cigars ayatollahs, and under the advise of @ginti, I planned to do fundies. Just the plane ticket in cattle class (Lord, protect me from evil) and the accommodation was 3 times SSI.

That is not the cost of the course... I could claim that cinema tickets cost 1000% more in Chile than where I live following that logic.