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 | 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 | 08.10.2025 | Diving Best Practice, Technical diving
But breathing oxygen for longer? NOAA workshop sees longer exposure times at 1.3bar pO2 as unproblematic The vast majority of divers associate oxygen primarily with one thing: maximum pO2. The exposure times appear to be of secondary importance, as even on a diving...
by Vero Punkfish | 16.08.2025 | Dive Pro, Diving Best Practice
Whether on Facebook, in forums, when checking in at the dive center or at the regulars’ table, the question of who is actually allowed to dive how deep is a recurring theme among divers.Are you allowed to dive? In principle, no one is forbidden to dive, and so anyone...
by Vero Punkfish | 05.08.2025 | Dive Pro, Diving Best Practice, Uncategorized
First Aid for DCS Why Oxygen is so Important “I don’t need oxygen, it just went away on its own last time.”Someone said this to me a while ago, who at the time was showing slight circulatory problems and pronounced marbling of the skin. And he is not...
by Vero Punkfish | 19.06.2025 | Diving Best Practice, Uncategorized
Why every diver should know their gas consumption The minute breathing volume (AMV) is one of the most important parameters for safe diving. It indicates how many liters of breathing gas you consume per minute under certain conditions. While an adult breathes around...
