GUE Fundamentals: August 20 - 23
The Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) Fundamentals Course teaches the essential techniques of precision diving in any aquatic environment. It is beneficial to all divers, from beginner to advanced. An intensive course, it takes place over four full days and involves classroom sessions, land drills, and multiple diving sessions. The class is limited to four students to insure the highest quality experience built upon a great deal of teamwork and instructor input. All dives are filmed so students can review their performance and maximize their learning.
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In the Fundamentals course, students learn the D.I.R. “Doing It Right” equipment configuration, which is a highly refined system that works for all types of diving, from recreational to technical. Academic sessions teach diving skills, teamwork, dive planning, decompression theory, breathing gas choices, and more. In-water sessions teach propulsion techniques, buoyancy and trim, streamlining and efficiency, emergency procedures, team communication, and proper ascents and descents.
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Course dates (all day each day): August 20 - August 23, 2008
Course location: Falling Rock Scuba Park, LaGrange, KY
Instructor: Ed Gabe
Course Fee: $500
Students are also responsible for a $50 registration fee, dive site admission fees, tank fills, meals, transportation, etc.
Required Text: “Doing It Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving”
Prerequisites: Open Water (beginner) diver. Swim Test: students must be able to swim 300 yards in 14 minutes or less and complete a 50 foot underwater breath-hold swim.
GUE is Global Underwater Explorers: a non-profit organization dedicated to Education, Exploration, and Research. GUE is committed to “raising the bar” of diver training in the industry, while at the same time making notable progress in fields of exploration and conservation. Ed Gabe, a member of the New Horizons staff, is the only GUE instructor in Kentucky and one of only 51 worldwide.
