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GUE Basic Fundamentals – Gdansk

Tri-City and surroundings

13.09.2025
- 15.09.2025

Dive with more awareness, safety and fun as a team. Become a GUE diver!

“Fundies” is an iconic course that allows both novice and experienced divers to develop technique, improve buoyancy control, trim and teamwork. During your training, you will build a solid foundation for safe and conscious diving – whether you plan to dive technically, cave diving, wreck diving, or simply want to dive better as a recreational diver.

GUE Basic Fundamentals

The GUE Basic Fundamentals course begins the moment you apply.
Once you’ve paid the registration fee, you gain access to the GUE Master Learning platform to start independently study the theory.

The practical part consists of at least six open water dives.
During the in-water sessions, we focus on key skills such as: precise buoyancy control, refining trim and balance, advanced propulsion and maneuvering techniques, team diving principles in the project diving context, fundamental scuba skills (Basic 5), valve manipulation (valve drill), gas-sharing procedures (S-drill), proper use of a surface marker buoy (SMB), ascents using a minimum decompression profile.

During the training, we will dive in the Kashubian Lakes and in the Baltic Sea (the Gulf of Gdańsk).

GUE Basic Fundamentals is the ideal training for people who want to build a solid foundation for further development in recreational and technical diving, as well as to work in diving projects.

The Basic Fundamentals program is fully consistent with the GUE Technical Fundamentals course. If you decide to continue your education, you can go through a shortened version of the technical fundamentals course – without having to repeat the whole class from the beginning.

  • Place of training: Gdańsk and surroundings
  • Date: August 27-29, 2025
  • Required configuration: twinset + dry suit

Details

Who is this course for?
This course is ideal for:

  • Certified recreational divers who want to develop their skills and join the GUE organization,
  • People planning further education in the field of technical and/or cave diving,
  • All divers – and even instructors – who want to improve their diving technique and awareness.

Prerequisites:

  • At least 16 years of age,
  • Entry-level diving certificate (e.g. OWD, AOWD or equivalent),
  • Overall good health,
  • Basic swimming skills,
  • Being a non-smoker.

Training
programThe GUE Basic Fundamentals course lasts a minimum of 3 days and includes at least 6 dives, theoretical lectures and intensive land exercises.

Theory:
Participants absorb most of the theoretical material before starting the course, using the GUE Mastery Learning platform. This allows us to focus on practice in water and discuss the application of knowledge in real situations during the training.

Practice (sample timetable):

🗓 Day 1

  • Hardware review and optimization, discussion of the configuration recommended by GUE.
  • Procedures related to planning and preparing the team for diving.
  • Dry exercises: formations and communication in a team, movement techniques and Basic 5.
  • Two training dives: buoyancy, position, movement and maneuvering, communication and team formations, Basic 5.
  • Discussion of dives based on videos recorded by the instructor.
  • A short theoretical lecture and preparation for the next day.

🗓 Day 2

  • Dry exercises: valve drill, buoy, lost mask.
  • Two training dives: improving the skills from day 1 and new exercises previously done dry.
  • Discussion of dives based on videos recorded by the instructor.
  • Fitness test (swimming)
  • A short theoretical lecture and preparation for the next day.

🗓 Day 3

  • Dry exercises: s-drill, emergency situations, emergency ascents at the rope and in the depths.
  • Training dive: improving skills from previous days and new exercises previously done dry.
  • Verification dive: comprehensive scenarios covering the entire material.
  • Summary and individual feedback for each student.
  • Theoretical exam.

Why?
The GUE Basic Fundamentals course is a unique training course that will take the quality of your dives to the next level.
It gives a solid foundation and huge progress in the following areas:

✅ Buoyancy, trim and stability in the water.
✅ Precise movement and maneuvering techniques.
✅ Situational awareness and teamwork.
✅ A detailed hardware configuration.
✅ Preparation for technical courses and participation in diving projects.
✅ Better quality of diving!

Even if you don’t plan a technical path, the GUE Basic Fundamentals course will significantly improve your comfort and safety underwater.

Check out the full description of the GUE Basic Fundamentals training

An introduction to the Global Underwater Explorers system for recreational divers. The GUE Basic Fundamentals training is designed for recreational divers who want to refine their skills, improve their technique, and increase their diving awareness. This course provides an excellent introduction to the training system at GUE, enables a better understanding diving philosophy, and allows for the development of individual and team competencies. “Fundies” are also the first step to participate in various projects organised by Global Underwater Explorers .

Logistics

📍 Place: Gdańsk and the surrounding waters
🛏 Accommodation: on your own – we can help you with recommendations
🔧 Equipment: twinset configuration + dry suit (it is possible to rent)
💰 Cost: 2600 PLN (training) + 95$ (certificate and training materials) + gases (about 72 PLN).

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