Dive Locker

Welcome to the Dive Locker. I have designed these pages in the hopes that both divers and CABs (common air breathers) who are thinking about taking up diving find them informative and useful. In the main you'll find information on diving physics, dive tables, and dive physiology. I've also put the Dive Table Computer and the dive physics calculators, java script programs I wrote for my old website, back up.

I personally have been scuba diving since 1987 and have been an instructor for the International Committee for Marine Conservation (ICMC), a member of the CMAS Germany, since 1998. Scuba diving is probably one of the past-times I enjoy the most. It is the entrance ticket to a different world. A world in which a human being cannot exist for long time periods without technical crutches. This gives scuba diving a little bit of the flair that those bygone days of the great explorers must have had. Those days in which not every part of the world was known and charted. Scuba diving itself can be relaxing when you take a leisure underwater "stroll", or just sit on a rock, and watch the denizens of this world, or it can be exciting and an adrenalin rush when you dive in deep, cold and dark waters to explore a wreck or enter a cave knowing there is no direct way to the surface.

Your diving experiences can be all this and more depending on your inclinations and your level of training. Yes, training. In scuba diving there is definitely no way around proper training and certification. Although scuba diving is a very safe sport, it can turn deadly quickly if you don't know what you're doing. If you don't believe it just look at the physiology section to see some of the things that can happen. So if you're not a diver take a look around, inform yourself, read, and learn but if you want to dive come back here and follow one of the links below to a dive organization that can teach and certify you.

International Committee for Marine Conservation (ICMC) (German based organization oriented towards environmental and marine conservation, training from beginner to Instructor numerous specialty courses)
CMAS Germany (The umbrella organization for numerous German scuba diving organizations)
PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) (The worldwide leading organization in scuba diving. Although I hold certifications with them and their training materials are excellent, I find them a bit too commercially oriented.
NAUI (National Association of Underwater Instructors)