Guy Shockey, Founder, Team Lead,
GUE Instructor Evaluator

Started Diving in 1982. Since then, around 10,000 dives in most oceans of the world

Current Level: GUE Instructor Evaluator, OC and CCR technical diving, Cave 2

Home Base: Vancouver Island, BC

Favorite snacks: Beef Jerky and cheese

Guy Shockey learned to dive in a cold mountain lake in Alberta 40 years ago. He is a full-time instructor Evaluator for Global Underwater Explorers and regularly travels the world teaching everything from introductory to advanced technical diving including closed circuit rebreather diving. He is particularly active with instructor training. He has an undergraduate and graduate degree in political science and was a military officer in another life. He has several business startups to his credit including companies in the manufacturing, wholesale, and retail sectors. He played competitive rugby for many years and is an active skydiving instructor and coach. He was the editor for an outdoors magazine for 13 years and regularly writes for various diving publications.  His passions include exploration and underwater archaeology and helping grow diving communities.

 

“So many divers start diving because they have a passion to explore somewhere that most people never get to see. Sadly, they don’t get to fulfill that passion as they are never provided opportunities other than “take another class”. Diving should be the means to an end but not the end itself. I created Thermocline Diving to allow divers to connect passion to purpose.”