Underwater Exploration

So it’s been a slow year, as far as diving is concerned. I’ve spent much of the year with my head in books studying for my classes, working, or doing home improvements. I haven’t completely fallen off the face of the earth however. I’ve made a few dives to the Blue Hole in New Mexico either for pleasure or assisting with classes. Hopefully the second half of the year will pick up as the dust settles and I run out of things that need to be done.  Until then I’ll probably start writing some information about dive sites and about a dive related project that I’m about to start. I’ll keep you updated.

I’m registered to take the GUE Fundamentals class with Rob Calkins over a two weekend period in March 2007. The first weekend will be March 10-11 at Flatirons Scuba, in Broomfield,CO and the second weekend will be March 17-18 at the Blue Hole, in Santa Rosa,NM. I’m pretty excited to have the opportunity to be able to take this class. I also want to take other classes from GUE and taking the Fundamentals class is the first stepping stone in being able to take those classes. I will be sure to write a detailed class report after the class.

What is the purpose of GUE Fundamentas?

“The GUE Fundamentals course is designed to cultivate the essential techniques required by all sound diving practice, irrespective of level or environment. Functioning as a prerequisite for all other GUE classes, save its recreational diver course (forthcoming), GUE Fundamentals performs a three-fold function within the GUE curriculum: 1) it provides the recreational diver, in whom there is no desire for further diver training, with a context in which to advance his/her basic diving skills, thereby developing more comfort, confidence, and competence in the water; and 2) it provides the diver with aspirations of more advanced diver training with the tools that will contribute to a greater likelihood of success; and 3) it provides non-GUE trained divers with a gateway into GUE training.” — gue.com