GUE Fundamentals - Introduction

DIR (Doing It Right) is a holistic diving system that is designed to maximize diving fun while minimizing effort and risk. The DIR system is practiced by divers around the world in environments ranging from shallow coral reefs to deep ocean wrecks. Minimizing a diver's effort while promoting systems to maximize safety and efficiency, DIR is creating a revolution in diving fun and safety.

Without bulky configurations that leave equipment dangling from a divers body, individuals are free to move easily through the water. When merged with other DIR skills such as team diving and precision diver control, individuals are able to appreciate a whole new way of diving, having more fun while diving safer and more responsibly. Simply put, these techniques enable divers to maximize their ability and eliminate the impediments common in conventional diving.

DIR techniques have gained extensive international popularity with divers that range in experience from newly certified to long time diving professionals. The rapid utilization of DIR in the technical diving world has led some individuals to believe that DIR is primarily designed for these environments. While it is true that technical divers were the most rapid adaptors of DIR principles it is not accurate to imagine that DIR solves primarily technical diving problems. Actually DIR addresses diving's most fundamental problems with solutions that apply equally to shallow open water divers, leading edge technical divers, and even military special forces applications.

In truth, DIR techniques and procedures are effective precisely because they are the essence of simplicity. As such this system could be said to be equally or more valuable for recreational divers who are less experienced individuals and not as likely to be able to overcome the stress associated with improper techniques. The essence of these principles focus on creating a foundation of skills and procedures that serve as a platform around which divers can build from basic open water excursions to the most advanced forms of technical diving.

Prerequisits

  1. Must meet GUE General Course Prerequisites
  2. Minimum age of 16
  3. Open water certification
  4. All participants must be able to swim at least 300 yards/275 meters in less than 14 minutes
  5. All participants must be able to swim a distance of at least 50' (15m) on a breath hold
  6. Be in possession of a copy of the DIR Fundamentals book.

Duration

The GUE DIR Sport Diver class is structured around a minimum 32 hour 4 day session encompassing both classroom and in-water work.

Course Content

The GUE DIR Fundamentals course instructs divers in the fundamental aspects of DIR diving, increasing diver fun and efficiency while reducing stress and diver risk. Instruction focuses on providing divers with a robust understanding of DIR techniques as they apply primarily to recreational diving. Skills will focus on a range of skills including: improving diver proficiency, team building skills, precision buoyancy control, perfecting diver trim, reducing drag, equipment configurations, refining propulsion techniques, improving underwater communication, effective risk evaluation and efficient dive planning.

The Fundamentals course has recently been expanded with the addition of a Nitrox module as well as a increased focus on in-water activity.

Course Limits

  1. All dives are to maintain a working PO2 of no greater than 1.4
  2. No dives are to exceed an equivalent narcotic depth of 60' (18m)
  3. Instructor to student ratio maximum 6:1 in open water, adjusting downward for environmental conditions

Certification Agency

Global Underwater Explorers

Course Cost

$450.00USD + applicable taxes

Note: A $200.00USD non-refundable deposit is required upon booking

Additional Costs

  • $34.95(CAD) GUE Manual "The Fundamentals of Better Diving"
  • $25.00(CAD) GUE Workbook for"The Fundamentals of Better Diving"
  • $30.00(USD) Registration fee which includes 'C' card"
  • A certificate of achievement may be issued those divers who wish to audit the course

Equipment Requirements

Each student shoud have and be familiar with all of the following required equimpent:
  1. Tanks/Cylinders: Students may use dual tanks/cylinders connected with a dual outlet isolator manifold, which allows for the use of two first stages. Students may also use a single tank/cylinder with a K, H, or Y valve
  2. Regulators: One of the second stages must be on a 5 to 7 foot/1.5 to 2 meter hose. One of the first stages must supply a pressure gauge and provide inflation for a dry suit where applicable)
  3. Buoyancy Compensators: Back-mounted wings, mated with a harness and a back plate are mandatory
  4. At least one depth-measuring device
  5. Time keeping device
  6. Decompression tables
  7. Mask and fins (fins must be of the non-split variety)
  8. At least one cutting device
  9. Underwater slate or Wet Notes
  10. One reel/spool, with 100 feet/30 meters of line per diver
  11. One SMB(Suface Marker Bag) of the appropriate size 3'/1m or 6'/2m
  12. One primary reel per team, with a minumum of 300 feet/90 meters of line
  13. Exposure suit appropriate for the duration of exposure



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