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RECREATIONAL TRAINING

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GUE Recreational Diver Level 1

Recreational Diver 1 is the first course to take you beneath the surface while developing your independence as a new diver. 

Whether you are new to the diving world, you've taken a course outside of GUE before, or you’re looking to improve your skills after a few years of not diving, the GUE Recreational Diver 1 course is a great starting point. This course will build the foundations for your diving skills no matter what attracted you to diving.

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The Recreational Diver 1 course is usually conducted over 6 days and includes at least 10 aquatic sessions (confined water sessions) and 6 open water dives and at least 40 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom, land drills, and in-water work.

What you will learn:

Designed to develop the essential skills required for all sound diving practice. It allows the non-diver to cultivate a platform that supports comfort, confidence, and competence in the water, as well as more advanced training in the future. 
A GUE Recreational pass means that divers will be certified to dive with their diving team without the supervision of a dive professional to a maximum depth of 70 ft/21 m.

Prerequisites:

  • Be a minimum of 14 years of age.

  • 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.

  • For a full list of course prerequisites, click here.

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GUE Recreational Diver Level 2

This course is structured to prepare divers for deeper recreational diving up to 100 ft/30 m. It teaches divers to navigate underwater and how to help a team member in distress while using efficient diving skills and advanced breathing mixtures, such as triox.

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The Recreational Diver 2 course is usually conducted over 5 days and includes 11 dives and at least 40 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom, land drills, and in-water work. 

What you will learn:

  •  Basic skill cultivation and refinement

  • Familiarity with the theory and practice of minimum decompression dives

  • Correct ascent procedures

  • Reduced ambient light diving protocols

  • Compass and natural navigation

  •  Diver rescue (on land, at the surface and underwater)

  • Emergency management

  • Use of helium to minimize narcosis, CO2, gas density challenges, and post-dive “nitrogen stress” ​​​​​​​

Prerequisites:

  • Be a minimum of 16 years of age.

  • 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.

  • Have completed at least 25 non-training dives.

  • For a full list of course prerequisites, click here.

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GUE Recreational Diver Level 3

This is a limited decompression course structured to teach advanced diving skills, prepare divers for utilizing decompression cylinders with double tanks, and to breathe helium-based breathing mixtures appropriate for deeper recreational diving to 39 m/130 ft.

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The Recreational Diver 3 course is normally conducted over 5 days and includes 8 dives and at least 40 hours of instruction, encompassing classroom, land drills, and in-water work.

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What you will learn:

  • Knowledge of relevant physics and physiology

  • Familiarity with the theory and practice of decompression 

  • Correct ascent procedures

  • Use of decompression cylinder

  • Use of nitrox for decompression

  • Use of normoxic Helium (30/30 and 21/35) to minimize narcosis, CO2, gas density, and post-dive “nitrogen stress,” and the basic regulator/manifold failures procedures.

Prerequisites:

  • Be a minimum of 18 years of age.

  • 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 2 course or a GUE Fundamentals course at the “recreational” level.

  • Have completed the GUE Doubles Primer course or be proficient in doubles with at least 25 experience dives.

  • Have a minimum of 75 non-training dives. 

  • For a full list of course prerequisites, click here.

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