Basic Fundamentals

This course is a three-day, high-standard gateway into GUE diving. It focuses on essential skills like trim, buoyancy, propulsion, gas sharing, and team diving, while also introducing GUE’s standardized equipment configuration and procedures.

It’s designed for any certified diver—especially non-GUE divers—who want to build stronger foundational skills or enter the GUE training system. It’s also the ideal step before taking GUE recreational and technical primers.

No. Basic Fundamentals is specifically designed for non-GUE trained divers and serves as the entry point into the GUE system.

Basic Fundamentals provides a complete experience of GUE’s skill and configuration standards but does not require the same level of commitment or prerequisites as full Fundamentals. It serves as a training-focused pathway, not a pass/fail gateway to tech training.

You’ll train in buoyancy, trim, propulsion (backward kick, helicopter turn), gas sharing, SMB deployment, ascent protocols, and valve drills. You’ll also learn how to work efficiently as part of a dive team.

The course runs over three days and includes at least six dives, 24+ hours of in-person instruction, and additional theory via GUE’s online adaptive learning system.

Yes. The course can be completed with either configuration. If using doubles, prior experience or GUE Doubles Primer is required.

Yes. GUE’s adaptive online learning platform is a key part of the course, allowing students to master theory at their own pace before focusing on practical skills in person.

Graduates can move on to GUE recreational programs such as Navigation Primer, Rescue Primer, DPV 1, or Scientific Diver. It’s also excellent preparation for advancing to full GUE Fundamentals or technical training.