Category: Diving

DiveDuino – DIY dive computer

Von , 14. Dezember 2012 09:04

” What is DiveDuino?

Right now Diveduino will not replace your dive computer, but it can log your depth and temperature during your dive, saving it to a MicroSd Card in a TEXT file format so you can import it to excel and do your fancy dive profile graphics, no need of special $100 USD cables that all the diving equipment manufacturing companies sell. Plus it has a display for that information with a actual graph of your dive profile.How it came to my mind?

DiveDuino came to my mind since I am an active diver and I enjoy the sport. I am an electrical engineer and at work I came across with the Arduino platform. Dive computers are expensive, if you want all the fancy features, you can find some computers for about $150 USD and others for about $1500 USD. Every basic dive computer has this indicators: No Decompression Limit(NDL), depth, temperature and elapsed time. So why not create something with the help of the Arduino open source platform, I found a sensor that could interact with Arduino and the rest is the prototype that I am building.”

http://www.diveduino.com/

Project is still fund raising at Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1454384970/diveduino-diy-dive-logger?ref=ending_soon

Warum wir nicht mit einer Sauerstoffflasche tauchen !

Von , 13. April 2012 10:52

Wenn ich für jedes Mal wenn ich Sauerstoffflasche höre einen Cent bekommen würde, …

Warum ist es für einige Mittaucher so schwer Sauerstoff und Luft umgangssprachlich auseinander zu halten ?

Die meisten wissen zum Glück das tauchen mit reinem Sauerstoff keine gute Idee wäre, aber sagen trotzdem Sauerstoffflasche – arrgh !

Im englischen ist es etwas klarer da heißt es einfach gas tank und mit gas ist halt das Atemgasgemisch gemeint. Wie wir alle wissen besteht die Luft die wir alle atmen aus 76% Stickstoff, 21% Sauerstoff und der Rest aus Edel- und Spurengasen.

Also ist zwischen Sauerstoff zu 100% und als Gemisch mit 21% doch ein kleiner aber signifikanter Unterschied !

 

Enriched AIR – Nitrox course

Von , 16. Dezember 2011 16:09

One step further to becoming a tech diver. Tomorrow I’m taking the Nitrox course.

Unfortunatly the Baltic Sea is not deep enough in an acceptable distance so the course is ‘just’ theory.

 

Magnetic deviation – compass and diving

Von , 29. Oktober 2011 08:41

Magnetic deviation is the error induced in a compass by local magnetic fields, which must be allowed for, along with magnetic declination, if accurate bearings are to be calculated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_deviation

So it’s a good idea to hold the compass and the torch in different hands !

Advanced Open Water Diver

Von , 10. September 2011 23:38

Since last weekend I’m certified Advanced Open Water Diver and on Friday my Brevet card arived. The next steps shoud bring me further to Tec Diving, I’m really interested in Cave and Wrek Diving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tec_diver_with_sidemount_tanks.JPG

Open Water Diver – PADI

Von , 28. Juli 2011 09:32

Since it was  some time ago that I finished my diver course by DIWA (Diving Instructor World Association), it was a good choice doing the Open Water Diver course by PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors).

It was really fun and I decided to do the Peak Performance Buoyancy course directly thereafter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scuba-diving.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scuba-diving.jpg

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