ALTITUDE DIVING
SSI Altitude Diving: Diving in mountain lakes
An extra course to dive in mountain lakes? This may seem a bit exaggerated, and of course you can dive at higher altitudes than sea level without having an extra certification. But what you should definitely do is to acquire some additional knowledge: Diving at altitude has some additional risks that you should know about. Then you can adjust the dives accordingly and just enjoy the picturesque surroundings.
If you don’t need or want a certification, you may of course still read our material. But if you’d like proof of that, we’d be happy to have you take the course.
Your advantage with the course: Of course you have contact persons with us. If you don’t understand something, you can just ask on different channels and you will surely get a nice answer. And if you don’t get your questions answered there, we’ll just do a webinar tailored to your questions.
108,90 €
SSI Altitude Diving
6 reviews for SSI Altitude Diving
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When you think of diving, you first think of the beach, the sea, palm trees, boats, sun – in principle, simply the absolute opposite of mountains. So why talk about diving and altitude?
Quite simply, there are people who also dive in lakes, not just in the sea. And lakes are often located significantly far above sea level – mountain lakes in Switzerland, for example, but also Lago Atitlan in Guatemala, the Lagunas de Montebello in southern Mexico, many lakes in the U.S. and several other interesting dive sites around the world. Mountain lakes have a very unique charm, and it is worth exploring the crystal clear, cold water.
But to do that, you should know a few things. We will explain here in a first chapter what changes in the mountains and what stresses the human organism can be exposed to. As a central theme, we then look in the second chapter at what influence altitude has on our decompression or no-decompression limits. Of course, we also explain in a very practical way how to plan a dive in the mountain lake.
In the last part, we will talk about everything that happens around the dive. What happens after the dive? Do you have to go further uphill? How critical is the crossing of a pass road?
Have fun
The Punkfishes Vero and Dominik
Chapter 1: Altitude and the human body
What is different at altitude?
How does the body react to differences in altitude?
Chapter 2: Diving at altitude
What changes in the no-decompression limits?
What role does the journey play?
How to deal with the cold?
Chapter 3: Passes after diving
When might it be a problem to go higher after diving?
Uwe S. (verified owner) –
Sehr interessantes Zusatz wissen!
Birgit Voß (verified owner) –
Der Kurs war definitiv spannend. Ja man weiß als Taucher, dass Höhe beim Tauchen was ausmacht, aber es war sehr gut, dass gebündelt an einem Abend nochmal in Summe mit all seinen Aspekten zu hören. Macht weiter so….
Christian Hennig-Lückert (verified owner) –
Interessanter Kurs, der einem doch die eine oder andere Wissenslücke offen legt und damit sehr hilfreich ist.
Zudem ein sehr angenehmer und persönlicher Kontakt zum Team.
Vielen Dank dafür. 🙂
Maximilian (verified owner) –
Der Kontakt war super nett und der Kurs echt interessant. Ich habe viel gelernt und hatte Spaß dabei. Vielen Dank dafür!
Patrick –
Just finished this course and it was excellent. They have developed their own materials since SSI does not have them. They are easy to understand, thorough, and have enough depth to allow someone to dig deeper on their own if they wish. I’ll definitely take another class from them and maybe plan a dive trip to La Palma now.
Jens (verified owner) –
Der Kurs ist sehr informativ und spannend zugleich. Themenschwerpunkte wurden detailliert und verständlich erklärt. Ich kann ebenfalls bestätigen, dass der Kontakt zu den Punkfishen ein sehr freundlicher ist und Fragen sehr schnell und präzise beantwortet werden. Vielen Dank dafür und macht bitte weiter so!