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 (or elsewhere), 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 generaldecompression strategies; 
c) the use of Helium to minimize narcosis; and 
d) the applications of singledecompression stage diving, with respect to decompression procedures.

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The Tech 1 Plus Upgrade is designed to allow the Tech 1 certified diver to develop their technical diving skills and to progress towards more complex and advanced dives.  

The existing skills learned at Tech 1 will be expanded to include the use of a bottom stage to either allow more flexibility for multiple dives, or to allow longer bottom times.

Students will be trained in safe gas planning and management strategies, failure management and resolution and contingency measures.

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GUE’s Technical Diver 2 (Tech 2) course is the second in a series of three courses designed to develop technical diving excellence, building upon previously learned skills with a focus on extending essential technical diving skills.

Tech 2 training focuses on building diving proficiency at increasing depth, using Helium diving gases with Oxygen-enriched decompression gases. These skills include: the use of multiple stages; the use of Trimix; the use of greater percentages of Helium; gas management; Oxygen management; decompression; accelerated, omitted and general decompression strategies; dive planning, and technical equipment configurations.

Course participants will gain experience working with a variety of different gasmixtures for use as bottom-mix and multiple-decompression gases.

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GUE’s Technical Level 3 (Tech 3) course is the culmination of a series of three courses designed to establish technical diving excellence and facilitate deep, mixed-gas diving.
Emphasis is placed on aggressive diving profiles, including advanced decompression theory, advanced gas mixture/management, control over extreme exposures to Oxygen, and proficiency in the use of a DPV for propulsion at depth. 

This course is heavily experience-based and deals mostly with the practical implications of deep diving; divers are expected to be capable technical divers.

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GUE’s Rebreather Diver course is designed to
1) educate individuals in basic rebreather technologies and
2) cultivate diver proficiency in the use of Halcyon’s semi-closed-circuit technology.
The course assumes that divers are not experienced in the use of rebreather technology but are very capable open-circuit Tech 2 divers.

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