Punkfish Academy
Diving theory for everyone: Whether you are new to diving, on your way to becoming a professional or a passionate tekkie – there is something for everyone in our range of courses.
What’s up with these “punk fish”?
Punkfish Diving is a small dive center in the small town of Fuencaliente in the south of the small island of La Palma – a converted former bakery, a newly furnished former bodega, but filled with everything you need for diving and tech diving.
Because it wasn’t always easy for this small base due to Corona and the volcanic eruption, we Punkfish sometimes did a little more theory instead of diving. In many long webinars, we covered all the diving theory up and down – to impart knowledge, but also to talk about diving together and look forward to the next dives.
This is how the Punkfish Academy came into being. For several years, we have specialized in Deco theory and are working to make our diving instructor training even better. As an SSI Instructor Training Center, we can offer you all SSI courses and can be found not only online, but also often in the water.
Through the long work, especially on the topic of Deco theory, so much knowledge has accumulated over the years that we have now made it into a book: Deco Theory – Decompression during Diving, published by Zeisig Verlag.
This site is constantly growing, so check back from time to time. We wish you a lot of fun while scrolling through our site!
Veronika Sievers
SSI Instructor Trainer and Technical Diver
Vero has been a full-time diving instructor and owner of Punkfish Diving on La Palma for 20 years now. In recent years, she has increasingly focused on diving instructor training, technical diving and, above all, diving theory.
In her life before diving, she studied social sciences and German as a teacher. A short break after her traineeship led to a completely different career path, but one that still has a lot to do with education.
Dominik Elsaesser
SSI DMI and astrophysicist at TU Dortmund University
On land, Dominik works as a scientist at TU Dortmund University, among other things in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. As La Palma not only has fantastic diving areas, but also excellent conditions for astronomical observations, there are also large telescopes for this energy range. So it was perhaps even foreseeable that at some point one could find the other, and Dominik discovered his passion for diving. This passion has not let go of him to this day, and so he trains punk fishermen with great enthusiasm on various topics, in theory just as much as in practice.
Punkfish courses
Science of Diving
Dive physics, physiology, decompression, equipment, oceanology… A little bit of everything to know a lot about diving.
Accompanying the SSI course Science of Diving
SSI Instructor Training
Do you want to become a diving instructor? With the SSI ITC you get a worldwide recognized license and can learn a lot at Punkfish that will help you in real diving life.
Nitrox
How is diving with Nitrox different than diving with air? And what do you need to know to safely deal with increased oxygen pressure?
Accompanying the course SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 40%
Decompression Theory
Inert gas absorption and release, M values, saturation models, bubble models, gradient factors – decorative knowledge for sport and tec divers
Altitude Diving
Diving at higher altitudes: what do you need to consider? Is it enough to simply switch the computer? And can I still drive over the pass after diving?
Complete SSI Altitude Diving course
