by Vero Punkfish | 22.10.2026 | Dive Pro
A dive instructor doesn’t stand firmly on the bottom with both fins. Dive instructors face a difficult question when training beginners. We want to train autonomous divers; students should be able to dive alone after the course. But while they are learning, we...
by Vero Punkfish | 29.03.2026 | Decompression, Dive Pro, Uncategorized
Decompression sickness—skin mottling after a dive, pain, or even neurological deficits—is frightening. But how common is decompression sickness, actually? At first glance, the figures circulating seem reassuring. For recreational diving, incidence is usually quoted...
by Vero Punkfish | 12.01.2026 | Dive Pro, Diving Best Practice
No more air What is the best way to prepare divers for this? Suddenly running out of air – that’s probably the biggest horror scenario in diving.That’s why, right from the Open Water Diver course, you practice how to get air from your buddy, how to do a...
by Vero Punkfish | 11.01.2026 | Dive Pro
Specialties in Diving: Rip-off, Card Sales, or Meaningful Further Education? You can arrange your entire diving life so that you never just go diving, but complete one course after another. Boat diving. An SMB specialty. An ecology specialty per fish species. An extra...
by Vero Punkfish | 30.12.2025 | Dive Pro, Diving Best Practice, Technical diving
Choosing Gradient Factors Coffee grounds or science? In recent years, more and more dive computers have come onto the market that calculate with the Bühlmann algorithm ZHL-16C. More or less plausible pairs of gradient factors can be found as presets, and some divers...
by Vero Punkfish | 11.11.2025 | Dive Pro
Demo Quality The Art of Showing Skills, not just Knowing Them Of course, you can quickly and efficiently clear your mask if it floods again. You adjust your buoyancy without much thought, and you’ve long internalized that you have to counter-intuitively release...
