GAS Diving

It started out from the initial of the three founder divers (Graeme Andy and Sue) - you know GAS - well it seemed like a good idea at the time. Sue designed the logo to be based around the cave diving arrow left. See further examples via menu to the left. This has now been modified to be the logo used by Sue & G for geocaching (right).

Gas Diving UK was created by a group of three UK mixed gas divers, listed above. All of us are technical nitrox and trimix divers who engage in nitrox and trimix wreck diving in and around the UK, between us we have conducted hundreds of technical dives. In 1994, we wanted to improve our operational safety for wreck penetration dives, so we completed one of the overhead environment training programs, which is available from the US cave diving community. From this we now hold full cave diver certifications from both the National Association of Cave Divers (NACD) full cave and the National Speleological Society Cave Diving Section (NSS-CDS). Most of our training over the last few years has been done in the USA with members of the Woodville Karst Plains Project (WKPP), a group of exploratory mix cave divers who are pushing the boundaries of trimix diving, both open and semi - closed circuit. In particular we have benefited from one of the best in the diving fraternity Jarrod Jablonski, the WKPP & GUE training director.

In early 1999, we gained Instructor status within GUE and became the first 3 UK based GUE instructors, although at the time could not teach the syllabus as GUE was not recognised by the HSE. Graeme worked hard with HSE to get GUE recognised but it was not until both Sue and G and given up instructing that Andy completed the task. The GAS Diving web site it now maintained by Andy.