The following courses are what we consider to be "essential" classes. By essential, we mean that these courses will benefit all divers irrespective of whether they intend to undertake further technical diving traiing.
Each of these courses focuses to some degree on the fundamentals of good diving, either dive planning, buoyancy control or situational awareness. If you are unsure of which course may be relevant to you, either contact us for some guidance. You might also conider one of our workshops that will give you an introduction to some of the skills and knowledge you would gain in these courses.
Pre-requisites: Advanced Open Water
Duration: 3 days
When the buddy system works, it works well... but many divers are often left in precarious situations by a bad diving partner! The purpose of the Self Reliant Diver programme is to not only provide exposure to the skills needed to extricate oneself from such a situation, but also to emphasise the importance of proper dive planning as a means to avoid such situations in the first instance.
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Pre-requisites: Open Water
Duration: 4 days
The GUE Fundamentals course is designed to cultivate the essential techniques required for sound diving practices. GUE Fundamentals is a pre-requisite for all GUE cave and technical diving courses.
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Pre-requisites: None
Duration: 7 days
The primary purpose of GUE Recreational Diver 1 is to teach non-divers to master the art and science of sport diving through cultivating essential diving techniques and sound diving practices from the very beginning.
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Pre-requisites: Open Water
Duration: 2 days
The GUE Primer is intended to provide a broad overview of GUE as an organisation, their goals as a non-profit organisation and an introduction to equipment and skills common to many formal GUE training courses. Divers enrolling in the GUE Primer can expect to improve their overall control in the water and develop a solid foundation on which to base further training. The GUE Primer is a four dive programme that may be conducted in a singe weekend and is excellent preparation for further GUE training.
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Pre-requisites: Open Water
Duration: 2 days
This workshop is intended for people who want to discover the benefits of diving in twin tanks, acheive an understanding of equipment configuration and acquire basic competence in procedures for diving in a twin tanks. The workshop is conducted in a single day.
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Pre-requisites: Open Water
Duration: 2 days
Certainly not your usual drysuit class! The aim of this workshop is to develop a divers capability whilst diving in a drysuit and increase their ability to maintain control in the water.
