In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast you’ll learn about the dive training agency GUE and what makes them unique with Jarrod Jablonski.
Welcome To The Show!
Welcome to The Dive Locker Podcast, the podcast for dive professionals where we bring you the latest in diving industry resources that make you excellent at teaching techniques, risk management and dive business.
Last week we heard about RAID, well this week we’re going to learn about another relatively new dive training organization, and that is GUE. Global Underwater Explorers.
Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that represents a global network of GUE communities, empowered by highly refined diver training programs and inspired to explore and conserve the world’s aquatic environments.
GUE is a leader in scuba education, developing numerous industry-first training protocols with a global cast of extremely knowledgeable professional educators and producing divers of exceptional quality. These educational programs enable divers to enjoy a nearly unlimited range of opportunities, including conservation programs, exploration projects, and documentation adventures. GUE-trained divers are found in far-reaching global communities that offer many social and support opportunities alongside a host of unique and challenging underwater projects.
Mission Statement
Global Underwater Explorers is building global communities of passionate divers, empowered by high-quality training and organized to support wide-ranging diving activities. These communities contain and partner with dedicated explorers, conservationists and scientific researchers to conduct a diversity of aquatic initiatives around the world.
Jarrod Jablonski
So today I speak with Jarrod Jablonski.
He’s the founder of GUE and chairman of the board. JJ is an avid explorer, researcher, author, and instructor who teaches and dives in oceans and caves around the world. Trained as a geologist, Jarrod is the founder and president of GUE and CEO of Halcyon and Extreme Exposure. He remaine active in conservation, exploration, and filming projects worldwide. His explorations regularly place him in the most remote locations in the world, including several world record excursions at 300ft to cave penetrations in excess of 24,000feet/7km; these dives include bottom times of 12 hours with total immersions near 30 hours. Jarrod is also an author with dozens of publications, including three books and several forthcoming.
Now I have pulled this episode from a larger interview we did for The League of Extraordinary Divers Podcast, that episode will be coming out in a few weeks. But since he is in Dubai it has been really challenging to schedule our interview especially with his new absolutely epic project Deep Dive Dubai.
Items In This Episode
- How GUE began
- How Halcyon began
- Woodville Karst Plains Project
- Wakulla Springs
- Deep Dive Dubai
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