Tech through PADI or TDI?

[rabe]

Awesome glad the moral is high, if you're really into doing tech diving then as a suggestion I would look into GUE and find a instructor to teach you Fundies and then after 25 experience dives at a minimum then do T1 you will not regret it. Safe diving Steven.

The moral is always high!!
I'm looking at GUE right now, and it looks very different form PADI: the limits are really pushed... Technical Diver Level 1 | Global Underwater Explorers
Basically T1 is like Tec50... Isn't too much (dangerous?) skip so many steps at once?

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

The moral is always high!!
I'm looking at GUE right now, and it looks very different form PADI: the limits are really pushed... Technical Diver Level 1 | Global Underwater Explorers
Basically T1 is like Tec50... Isn't too much (dangerous?) skip so many steps at once?

There's no skipping of anything with GUE. T1 is a pretty tough class over 6 days. It isn't a route I'm going as my future is in sidemount. But if you have the time and money to commit and dive with a bottom timer, then that is the agency for you.

 

[stuartv]

The moral is always high!!
I'm looking at GUE right now, and it looks very different form PADI: the limits are really pushed... Technical Diver Level 1 | Global Underwater Explorers
Basically T1 is like Tec50... Isn't too much (dangerous?) skip so many steps at once?

I suspect that by the time you were to take GUE Fundamentals and develop your skills to the point of obtaining a Tech pass (which is a prerequisite for take GUE Tech 1), you will be ready to take Tech 1 safely. From what I know, getting a Fundies Rec pass is hard and a Tech pass is even harder.

 

[rabe]

Well, I'm now committed with PADI, but good to know...

 

[PfcAJ]

Well, I'm now committed with PADI, but good to know...

Sunk cost fallacy.

Turn back now.

 

[boulderjohn]

Let's just say that not all would agree.

 

[rabe]

I'm going to prepare the pop corn...

 

[KevinNM]

Awesome glad the moral is high, if you're really into doing tech diving then as a suggestion I would look into GUE and find a instructor to teach you Fundies and then after 25 experience dives at a minimum then do T1 you will not regret it. Safe diving Steven.

There is no requirement for experience dives after a tech pass. You can take a cave 1 or tech 1 class the next day. The standard for a tech pass is basically an answer of yes to the question “is this diver fully ready to take a tech class tomorrow?”

GUE is small enough that instructors who get unprepared students have no problem calling up the original instructor and yelling at them, and nobody likes having that happen.

 

[leadduck]

There is no requirement for experience dives after a tech pass. You can take a cave 1 or tech 1 class the next day. The standard for a tech pass is basically an answer of yes to the question “is this diver fully ready to take a tech class tomorrow?”

Ready to take the class maybe but not experienced enough to dive this way safely. I've seen three novice divers with a fundie tech pass run out of gas on rather simple dives just by not following procedures and lack of experience. Nothing wrong with taking fundies early, but better collect some 150 dives experience before going deep.

 

[taimen]

Nothing wrong with taking fundies early, but better collect some 150 dives experience before going deep.

Tech 1 and Cave 1 have a prerequisite of minimum of 100 logged dives beyond open water certification.
That is in addition to the fundies tech pass.