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Myself and a buddy just returned from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where we took GUE Tech 2 from Thomas Tukker at Brownies 3rd Lung. If you want get some excellent instruction and training GUE and Thomas Tukker are a great combination, and the wrecks off Ft. Lauderdale are great place for training! We spent 5 solid days of training, diving, discussing our dives and technique and what we needed to do to improve, change or fix and then practicing it. This is a course if you are serious about diving and serious about wanting to get the most out of safe, effective, logical diving methods and techniques. The amount I learned in those 5 days far exceeds what I learned in all the other "tech" trainings I have received from other agencies. Both my buddy and I have had training from other "tech" agencies (which with our personal experience allowed us to start at level 2) and there is no comparison to the quality and thoroughness of the GUE course we just took with Thomas. On one of our training dives my buddy and I had the privilege of being on a charter with roughly 8 members of the WKPP team (not counting Thomas as he is also a WKPP member). They are really a friendly and helpful group of people willing to share information to those willing to listen and think it through, which I though was quite nice considering we are a couple of "New England Wreck Divers". <g> We spent a total of over 48 hours, approximately 3100 miles, round trip in my truck from Massachusetts and back to take this course (as there are no GUE instructors up our way) and it was worth every minute spent to get there and home. I can only say one other dive training I have taken was worth a trip that long and that was my cave training done with Jarrod Jablonski (pre GUE). If you are serious and want some great instruction see Thomas Tukker at Brownies 3rd Lung, you can get his contact information at www.gue.com or email me privately. Just one other note if you do decide to make the trip I would not recommend staying at the Red Roof Inn off exit 32 on I-95 (Powerline Drive), not if you plan on getting any rest. Between the train, fire house, car alarms, drug bust on our floor early one morning and a flooded room it was the one mistake we made on the trip. I am normally a lurker on this list and will now return to that status. Stephen Neuger -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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