Dry Diving in Hyperbaric Chamber Überlingen

We’ve been here with Scubado and we did a 50m simulated dive for 65 min: It was an interesting adventure.Here are some interesting points: At the beginning, during compression phase, it was very cold (18°  and it was foggy), soon after it became warmer During the compression phase, even if it was 10 m / minute, we had to compensate all the time the pressure with equalization of our ears. While it is normal to equalize, we usually don’t do that so often in a normal dive under water. At 50m our voices sounded like those who breathe Helium We had our diving computers, but we were asked to put them in a bucket of water all the time, otherwise they could get damaged.   More pictures to come…     Pictures from the Hyperbaric chamber:  


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Diving #5: Überlingen, Tennis club with the new equipment

Ready to test the new equipment I bought this week ! Together with Jörg, Ben, Susi, Robert, Peter and other 4 persons we went diving in Überlingen near the Tennis club there. It has been a dive that felt like being cooked in a soup. The water had 29 degrees Celsius on the surface, about 19 at 13m depth. Unbelievable….   This time I had 2 Kg lead on the back of the jacket, 5 in front and 3 on the belt. 10 Kg in total. I was experimenting because of the new suite with 8 mm neopren and the new jacket. It was a bit too much, but it was OK in the end. I had just like usual a 12 L cylinder weighting 18 Kg. The landscape is a bit strange in Überlingen. You go down very steep up to 15 m or more (we went only to 13). The water was pretty cold there, at around 19 grad. Because the visibility was really, really, bad at around 1m or less, we couldn’t do too much. So, we started to go higher and higher towards the surface to find more clear water. There were some currents as well, because the plants in the water were moving very much. We’ve seen some small fishes, but that was all. I was enjoying my semi-dry suit and sweating like crazy. The 8mm in 29 grad water was a bit too much 🙂 But, what a great suit!!! And the jacket is also very Continue Reading →


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