Emőke Wagner GUE Instructor
GUE Rescue Primer
GUE’s Rescue Primer is a course designed to teach divers basic rescue techniques relevant to scuba diving emergencies.
Being able to prevent or handle stressful situations and emergencies underwater is one of the most meaningful skills you will ever learn, so the Rescue Primer should be high on every diver’s to-do list.
This course is recommended to all who are planning to pursue diving at any level. This primer is best taken after the Navigation Primer, as it requires competence in navigational skills.
The Rescue Primer is normally conducted over 2 days. It requires a minimum of 4 in-water sessions (including 3 dives) and at least 16 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom lectures, land drills, and in-water work.
This course can be conducted as part of GUE Recreational Diver Level 2 program.
What you will learn:
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Assisting distressed divers on the surface and underwater
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Including unconscious diver recovery
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Missing diver protocols
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Surface management of a diving emergency
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Diving BLS skills for DCI
Prerequisites:
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Be a minimum of 16 years of age.
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Be physically and mentally fit.
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Be a non-smoker.
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Be able to swim.
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Obtain a physician’s prior written authorization for use of prescription drugs, except for birth control, or for any medical condition that may pose a risk while diving.
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Have passed the GUE Recreational Diver 1 course or a GUE Fundamentals course at the “recreational” level.
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Have completed at least 25 non-training dives.
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For a full list of course prerequisites, click here.
GUE Navigation Primer
GUE’s Navigation Primer is a course designed to teach divers the basics of underwater compass use and natural navigation techniques. This course is recommended to be taken before the Documentation Diver, Scientific Diver, and especially Rescue Primer, as the latter requires competence in navigational skills.
This primer will also prepare you to dive in reduced light conditions (i.e. night dive).
The Navigation Primer is normally conducted over 2 days. It requires a minimum of 3 dives (including a dive in reduced ambient light conditions) and at least 12 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom lectures, land drills, and in-water work.
This course can be conducted as part of GUE Recreational Diver Level 2 program.
What you will learn:
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GUE equipment configuration and use
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Compass use and navigation (simple and complex), natural navigation, basic navigational strategies, and managing a spool as a guideline underwater.
Prerequisites:
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Be a minimum of 16 years of age.
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Be physically and mentally fit.
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Be a non-smoker.
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Be able to swim.
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Obtain a physician’s prior written authorization for use of prescription drugs, except for birth control, or for any medical condition that may pose a risk while diving.
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Have passed the GUE Recreational Diver 1 course or a GUE Fundamentals course at the “recreational” level.
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Have completed at least 25 non-training dives.
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For a full list of course prerequisites, click here.
GUE Triox Primer
GUE’s Triox Primer is a course designed to teach divers the use of triox 30/30 as a GUE standard gas to reduce the effects of increased gas density in recreational divers.
Diving in more challenging conditions - be it deeper, more complex dives on a project or executing a strenuous or complicated task - calls for high mental capacity for all of the team members.
All divers being ambitious for project diving or challenging themselves with dives in demanding conditions should consider using a helium-based breathing mix to make their dives safer and more comfortable. Additionally, it is a great way to prepare for deeper dive training by introducing and practicing ascent protocols.
The Triox Primer is normally conducted over 2 days. It requires a minimum of 4 dives (including 2 experience dives using triox 30/30) and at least 12 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom lectures, land drills, and in-water work.
This course can be conducted as part of GUE Recreational Diver Level 2 program, GUE Fundamentals course and GUE Cave 1.
What you will learn:
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Skill cultivation and refinement
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Familiarity with the theory and practice of decompression
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Correct ascent procedures and practice
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Use of Helium to minimize narcosis, CO2, gas density, and post-dive “nitrogen stress”.
Prerequisites:
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Be a minimum of 16 years of age.
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Be physically and mentally fit.
-
Be a non-smoker.
-
Be able to swim.
-
Obtain a physician’s prior written authorization for use of prescription drugs, except for birth control, or for any medical condition that may pose a risk while diving.
-
Have passed the GUE Recreational Diver 1 course or a GUE Fundamentals course at the “recreational” level.
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Have completed at least 25 non-training dives.
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For a full list of course prerequisites, click here.