![]() ![]() Sophie, however, has been diving a rebreather rather than a twinset, so had to borrow her kit from a friend who dived a GUE-type setup. I have been diving a twinset for years, so the only modification I had to make to my kit was to add a crotch strap and swap the harness webbing for one without a break. Then it was off to the car to pull out the kit that Sophie and I had put together for the course for our instructor James to have a look at and prep it for open water. ![]() Lots of this is common across agencies so much was revision, but there are a few concepts such as ‘Minimum Gas’ that are really smart ways of diving. For them, it’s all about ending up 11km up the back of a cave in Florida and their philosophy is that everything right from the beginning leads up to this – things that don’t make any sense at the start of training make perfect sense when you put it into the context of extended cave penetrations. ![]() Well, the whole GUE ethos is about the ‘end game’. It’s a four-day course, and at the end of it, Sophie and I were qualified to 18 metres and could use 32% nitrox. The idea was for us to see for ourselves exactly what was involved and how the GUE system would slot into the world of BSAC. BSAC has recently issued guidelines so that those who have trained with the agency GUE (Global Underwater Explorers) can dive safely within a club environment.Īs part of this process, National Diving Officer Sophie Heptonstall and I decided to take a Fundamentals course (popularly known as ‘Fundies’). ![]()
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