[gritspants]

I'm big into anti tech/work related activities. It reminds me that no matter how much I know, or think I know, that I have so much more to learn.

I got into scuba diving while living in NC, and it just happens that there's a lot of it off the coast! The other problem is that it's deep. Diving down to 130 feet sounds cool until you experience hours on a boat only to get a few minutes at the bottom. Eventually I got bothered to learn more about diving.

I headed down to northern Florida to dive with GUE. My instructor was a person who regularly got hit up to dive to exotic places all over the world. Missions like collecting/deploying samples, archaeology, recovery. Here were people meaningfully impacting the environment, science, and keeping technical know-how alive.

I don't know how to convey a the wonder I feel in text. Check it out maybe.

[swalberg]

GUE Fundies is on my bucket list. I don't think I'd be interested in cave diving or deep stuff where I need helium, but the level of skill that tech divers show is something I want to be able to do.

[chrishawes]

I've done Fundies, of all my diving qualifications, this one had the biggest impact on my diving.

Some instructors have a saying: "Students pay for the training; the certification must be earned."

[gritspants]

Do fundies! We all failed, initially. We had a blast bunking up and spending days in the water though.