Learn Cave & Technical Diving in High Springs (Cave Country, North Florida)

Honest level: Cavern -> Full Cave / Technical Instructor — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

GUE Cave Diver Level 1

The entry point into GUE's cave progression, run over six days across the North Florida springs (Ginnie Springs, Devil's, Peacock and others around High Springs). You run continuous guideline into flooded limestone, drill lost-line and lost-buddy and gas-failure procedures, practise cave navigation, and learn conservative gas management and team protocols on doubles. Requires a minimum of twelve dives (ten in at least three different caves) and roughly 48 hours of classroom lectures, land drills and in-water work. Prerequisite is GUE Technical Fundamentals plus around 100 logged dives.

A multi-day, full-immersion, small-team course taught in the world's premier cave-diving region by the body that wrote the modern cave-diving standard, leading to a real certification.

Masters & lineage

• Jarrod Jablonski (GUE founder)
• Sheck Exley (lineage)

Why Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)

GUE is a globally standardized agency where every diver learns identical theory, skills, and equipment configuration, and it is widely recognized for the rigor and consistency of its technical and cave-diving curricula taught from its High Springs base near the North Florida cave systems.

Schools in High Springs (Cave Country, North Florida)

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Global Underwater Explorers (GUE)
  GUE Cave Diver Level 1
  The entry point into GUE's cave progression, run over six days across the North Florida springs (Ginnie Springs, Devil's, Peacock and others around High Springs).
  https://www.gue.com/diver-training/explore-gue-courses/technical/cave-1
• Cave Country Dive Shop
  Cave diving training (Cavern through Full Cave and Cave CCR via NSS-CDS / NACD / TDI)
  Cave Country Dive Shop is a full-service shop in High Springs, Florida whose cave-instructor team teaches overhead training from cavern up to full cave and cave CCR through the NSS-CDS, NACD and TDI/SDI agencies.
  https://www.cavecountrydiving.com/
• Wet Rocks Diving
  GUE Cave 1 and Cave 2 training and guided cave diving
  Wet Rocks Diving, led by GUE instructor Meredith Tanguay, provides GUE Cave 1 and Cave 2 training and professional cave guiding across North Florida's High Springs spring-and-cave systems.
  https://www.wetrocksdiving.com/

The credential

Cavern -> Intro to Cave -> Full Cave (GUE / TDI / NSS-CDS) + technical/trimix progression · Certifying body: GUE / TDI / IANTD / NSS-CDS / CMAS

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Cave & Technical Diving

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.