by Vero Punkfish | 31.05.2026 | Decompression, Diving Best Practice
Everyone knows what GFs are—or do they? A new paper on DCS risk assessment is currently sparking debate. It is based on the DAN DSL Database and analyzes 127,957 dives from 5,907 divers, concluding, among other things, that supersaturation on reaching the surface is...
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...
