Here at Tech Dive NZ, we offer a range of GUE dive courses, either in-house or through the use of affiliate instructors. GUE, or Global Underwater Explorers, is a scuba diving organization that provides diving education within recreational, cave and technical diving. The GUE courses we offer are:
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: GUE Fundamentals (Tech Pass)
Duration: 5 days
The GUE Recreational Diver level 3 course is a mastery-level recreational class structured to prepare divers for deeper recreational diving using proper equipment, diving techniques and breathing mixtures. In this class, students will be introduced to the theory and practice of limited decompression, the use of trimix as a breathing gas and trained in correct ascent procedures.
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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.
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Pre-requisites: GUE Fundamentals (Tech Pass)
Duration: 5 days
The Technical Diver Level 1 (Tech 1) course is structured to prepare divers for the rigors of technical diving and to familiarize them with the use of different breathing and decompression mixtures, including the use of trimix to minimise narcosis. Tech 1 training focuses on expanding the skills learned in the GUE Fundamentals course, and is designed to cultivate, integrate, and expand the essential skills required for safe technical diving.
