by Vero Punkfish | 15.04.2025 | Uncategorized
Floating or kneeling? – Why I prefer to let my diving students take off early The question of whether diving students should kneel or float at the beginning is a constant source of debate – and not just among instructors. Over the years, I have seen many approaches,...
by Vero Punkfish | 16.03.2025 | Uncategorized
New toys: I have tinkered a bit and now have three small new tools for gas planning – here to try out and discuss.This is NOT intended for complex deco dives, if you are planning a complete dive anyway, you have a gas planning in Subsurface or other tools that...
by Vero Punkfish | 13.04.2024 | Uncategorized
One of the most important things you learn in every Nitrox course is that you can get an oxygen toxicity hit at high oxygen partial pressures. This can lead to seizures, which are difficult to survive under water. That’s true, without a doubt, and we definitely...
by Vero Punkfish | 14.02.2023 | Uncategorized
Malpique: Where the soul is lost in black coral A friend once wrote to me that he had lost his soul at some point on the outer reef of Malpique and has been searching for it ever since. Still and again, it pulls him there just magically into the depths.Arguably...
by Vero Punkfish | 14.02.2023 | Uncategorized
The business with dreams Sun, beach, diving – even as beginners, many begin to dream of doing this as a profession. Or at least for a few years… Traveling, making money all over the world, doing exactly what you love to do most anyway –...
