GUE Tech1
Technical Diver Level 1 – Trimix Diving with GUE
UK Price – £800 per student (includes Instructor expenses)
Europe Price – €1200 per student (excluding Instructor expenses)
PLEASE NOTE: As of 1st Oct 2010 the UK Price will be going up to £1000 and the Europe price to €1400. If you book the class before that date, then you will only pay the current price, even if the class dates are after the 1st Oct.
GUE Registration Fee: $100US
GUE’s Technical Diver Level 1 (Tech 1) course is structured to prepare divers for the rigors of technical diving and to familiarize them with the use of different breathing and decompression mixtures. Tech 1 training focuses on expanding the fundamental skills learned in the GUE Fundamentals course, and is designed to cultivate, integrate, and expand the essential skills required for safe technical diving. This will include problem identification and resolution, and building the capacity for progressively more challenging diving. In this class, students will be trained in: a) the use of double tanks/cylinders and in the potential failure problems associated with them; b) the use of Nitrox for accelerated and general decompression strategies; c) the use of Helium to minimize narcosis; and d) the applications of single decompression stage diving, with respect to decompression procedures.
The class will focus on Nitrox and Trimix as breathing gases for dives down to 160 feet/48 meters, and provides an excellent foundation on which divers can build their technical diving experience and prepare for GUE’s Technical Diver 2 course (Tech 2).
The Tech1 course qualifies divers to use Triox 30/30, Trimix 21/35 and Trimix 18/45 as bottom gas, and one of 50% Nitrox or 100% oxygen for Decompression.
The course is usually run over 5 days, but this may be adjusted to suit local conditions. Please contact us directly to discuss possible locations.