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This week I chat with Laney Grant, a newly qualified GUE Fundamentals Diver and Ghost Fishing UK’s Fundraising Officer.

We initially met when she ordered one of the Fancy a Brew podcast mugs after listening to the episode with @RichWalker.

She talks openly about how completing the Global Underwater Explorers’ Fundamentals course, gave her the confidence to be in the water more than she had before. After asking her previous instructors how to remain stable and neutral and their only suggestion was to just practice, Laney felt so disillusioned. 

GUE was formed by Jarrod Jablonski and gained early prominence in association with the success of its well-known Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP), which now has the status of a nonprofit affiliate of GUE. Jablonski, the president of GUE, promoted the ideas of “Hogarthian” gear configuration and the “Doing It Right” (DIR) system of diving to a global audience. Following the WKPP’s introduction in 1995 of a standardised approach to gear configuration and diving procedures, there was a significant reduction in diving incidents within the Woodville Karst Plain cave system.

The standardised approach is the basis of the diver training program of GUE, marking an important difference from the programs of other diver training organisations. GUE also focuses on protecting the maritime environment. The most popular GUE course is GUE Fundamentals, which is designed to introduce the GUE system to non-GUE divers and is the pathway to technical courses. Further courses are offered in recreational, technical, and cave diving, as well as instructor courses. 

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