I was trained to have 3 lights and if even one goes out you call the dive. The reasoning is that if you lose your lights you lose your life. Since there is NO natural light on a cave dive. You also need a dry suit on deep penetration cave dives because even in warm water your body can't maintain it's core temperature on long dives and you end up with hypothermia. It's expensive to be a cave diver. It helps that I live in Florida and don't have to travel very far for a cave dive.
GUE has a lot going for it and in my opinion all diving agencies should strive to have similar standards. However I have had both PADI and IANTD instructors who demand such standards. It is not the agency at the end of day who teach anything.
Samurailord: That's not a big problem if you go to their website, find an instructor who lives close to your area and contact him directly (you can find his email and phone number there)
The Problem (for me at least) is that it is so easy to enroll a PADI or CMAS course and so difficult to get to some GUE training. I'd love to do a lot of GUE training. But i can't find any opportunities in my area/country. I was searching for a couple of weeks now. I can understand most people just do the padi thing for the simple fact that it is easily available. Or maybe i didn't grasp how GUE courses are organized yet and it will be easy once you know how to get the needed information?
Interesting that after 10 mins of stressing the importance of diver safety the doc ends with what looks a lot like a shot of people diving single tanks inside the Arch at the Blue Hole.
I will be a GUE student soon, right now PADI
I was trained to have 3 lights and if even one goes out you call the dive. The reasoning is that if you lose your lights you lose your life. Since there is NO natural light on a cave dive. You also need a dry suit on deep penetration cave dives because even in warm water your body can't maintain it's core temperature on long dives and you end up with hypothermia. It's expensive to be a cave diver. It helps that I live in Florida and don't have to travel very far for a cave dive.
GUE has a lot going for it and in my opinion all diving agencies should strive to have similar standards. However I have had both PADI and IANTD instructors who demand such standards. It is not the agency at the end of day who teach anything.
haloclyne: Which Instructor do you mean? The course in the film was held by Kirill Egorov who speaks Russiand and English
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Samurailord: That's not a big problem if you go to their website, find an instructor who lives close to your area and contact him directly (you can find his email and phone number there)
and now days GUE is the same as the other agencies
А почему все переводится на английский,по моему и инструктор и студенты русские,как я понимаю?
OK, I watched the video again and saw a guy with "GUE Instructor" written on screen and who had to be translated, so I assume he speaks Russian.
The Problem (for me at least) is that it is so easy to enroll a PADI or CMAS course and so difficult to get to some GUE training. I'd love to do a lot of GUE training. But i can't find any opportunities in my area/country. I was searching for a couple of weeks now. I can understand most people just do the padi thing for the simple fact that it is easily available.
Or maybe i didn't grasp how GUE courses are organized yet and it will be easy once you know how to get the needed information?
haloclyne: There were 2 Instructors, Russian and American , which one do you mean?
haloclyne: Oh, yes, if you mean Kirill Egorov, the Russian instructor, of course he speaks Russian.
so what if i cant free dive to 15 meters on a single breath ? i cant be in this course?
so how do i qualify to become a GUE open water diver and what are the cost for the complete program?
Does the instructor speak Russian. Or did he have to do the entire course through an interpreter?
Of course, underwater, the language is universal :)
mmdghr : Sure!!!
Interesting that after 10 mins of stressing the importance of diver safety the doc ends with what looks a lot like a shot of people diving single tanks inside the Arch at the Blue Hole.
all people in the world must drive Honda Civics, because I cannot think on the fly
lol, frog kick in open water, whatever guys