How to become a GUE Recreational Diver?

guy with red wing in the thumbnail - your back is so overly hyperextended it looks so strained and unnatural

Just recently got my Rec 1 certification! So amazing! It's a very challenging course, but SCUBA is amazing and so fun.

👍

PADI instructor here wishing I did GUE 1 l o l

At around 6.45 is that meant to happen?

Hi, why drysuit diving somewhere you dont need gloves?

Yes well done

Great video. Looks like the recreational course is modeled on gear configuration of GUE

This Warm water diving can not be compared to colder drysuit diving 😂 😂

This looks really cool, but I think thats because I'm kind of a diving geek and interested in more technical aspects of diving. The vast majority of people out there are going out once every few years while they're on vacation and are just looking to check out a reef. The level of depth and detail the GUE rec course goes into is like giving a normal barista a chemistry degree.

I mean, sorry but this is really the wrong idea you are providing to unknown people. I am not here to say this agency or that agency is better.


BUT


a 10 day course, with 3-4 dives a day ( lets minus theory, don't know if this is included in these 10 days ) lets say 20 dives. Sure an Open Water Diver from PADI or SSI will have not as good buyance as the students in this class with 10 days. But this has nothing to do with the agency, it has something to do with the normal Open Water Diver class (or simalar namings). They are normaly 3-4 days.. Also the GUE Recreational Diver Level 1( Open Water Diver, a bit adavanced ) seems to offered in a 3-4 days for this course. Regarding their own standards:


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The Recreational Diver Level 1 course is normally conducted over five days. It requires a
minimum of ten confined water sessions, six open water dives, and at least forty hours of
instruction, encompassing classroom lectures, land drills, and in-water work.


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The more time an instructor spend in the water with the students, the better the students are. How quick students can reach this level, depends on the instructor in first place, in my opinion. If I double up the course lenght sure it will be better and safer for the divers.


The question is: What is enough? You can also say, you need 100 dives with an instructor, than you are allowed to name your self recrational diver.


Regarding Long Hose vs Octopus. Both options have their advantages and disadvantages, if you follow the guidlines, the pre dive checks, the recommandations of one agency you are fine. Sure if you skip somethign you can be in danger, but this is meant for all agencys. It is your own risk! It is also your own risk if you are not checking your tires on your car, nobodys does that or your brakes everytime after you parked the car.


DON'T PRAISE SOMETHING BECAUSE SOMETHING ELSE IS WORSE. PRAISE IT BECAUSE IT IS GOOD IN THE WAY YOU THOUGHT ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!


PS: This post is not meant to hurt anybody, and it is not against anybody, because all agencys are doing that sadly :(

This is awesome :)

This class looks like it costs A LOT.

Very thorough video. Thank you. As a NAUI instructor, I strive for the same, but while you've addressed some of the failings of the typical certification agency, what is missing is a critique of today's diver.

Regrettably, today's divers want to dive but they also want to do all of their other activities. As with most of the recognized masters in a craft, they focus on years of training followed by years of practice. That practice however is more often than not in ONLY one field or specialty.

I like the premise of an extended training regiment and do that, but I've really only seen GUE insist on it. I understand that people get caught up in the day to day of life, but I am at a loss to why would someone not want to take more robust educational and practical programs. While I've expanded NAUI's standards to reflect a lot of what I learned in my technical and cave courses, I think the industry as a whole has to change or divers will continue to perform poorly -- to that effect, preventable accidents, injuries, and deaths will keep happening.

My students end up being better trained, but so few of my students have the time to dive as much as I want them to, AND I'm an independent scuba diving instructor that does NOT work for a dive shop! My schedule is always open to go with anyone at anytime but the requests are sporadic.

I'd really like the premise of recertification. While I don't offer 2-hour refresher courses in a pool to anyone that has not dove in a year without insisting that dives in open water are executed prior to an update in a logbook, all the dive shops do. Sadly, some people never call me back.

Are there any recommendations you can offer to find students that want the robust training they should be taking? What demographic of person seeks out GUE instead of defaulting to PADI style programs. Cheers, --carlos

great video!

Love seeing diving come back to basics and more importantly teaching new divers the importance safety. I'm not an instructor but I am involved in my local community and 'trained' to a certain level. If I had a dollar for the amount of times I have been shocked by the ignorance and blaze attitude of students of certain training organisations I would have enough money to complete a padi zero to hero course 😅. But jokes aside I love the purpose behind this new training method and I would love to get involved myself.

Hello, I'm wondering why the torch power cable goes Across the the body? Why not fix the power cable to run under the left arm to the battery? That way the cable isn't dangling and doesn't interfere with the long octopus hose. I watched a training video. During the out of air demonstration the air supply diver gave the primary to the out of air diver, the air supply diver would then "untangle" the torch power cable. Can you clear up that method for me please? Thank you.

Great Video!

why dry suits?

nice