Month: August 2019
QUEST – Diving in India – Oceanic feelings
QUEST is a quarterly magazine published by GUE that seeks to cultivate an understanding and appreciation of the underwater world and its component parts. Click here to access the Quest page on the Global Underwater Explorers website: Quest magazine. In June 2019, Quest published an article by Julien Fortin, GUE Fundamentals instructor based in India, […]
Doing it wrong – Smoking and diving
Click her to download the full article in PDF Format: Doing it Wrong-Smoking and Diving, H. Hamza One of the many specificities of Global Underwater Explorers as a community and a training agency is the strict anti-smoking stance. Not only are instructors required to be non-smokers – students are too, and any diver wishing to […]
Exploration – Rajan’s Playground
During an exploration dive on Trimix at 48 meters of depth off the coast of Pondicherry, India, C.K. Rajan and Julien Fortin discovered of a beautiful reef. Using standard, helium-based gases does not only make the dive safer and more enjoyable: it also makes the team more efficient. Exploring deeper than 30 meters on Air […]