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WELCOME: my name is ALBI.
Due to multinational friendships, this welcome message and a part of the technical infos are in english. However the diving course stuff and the course manuals on these pages are in plain german.

What do we have here?
Well, first of all, a couple of UW photographies and a handfull of diving manuals ...

• everything started around 1991 with my little virtual dive computer museum
• and with information & dates concerning our PADI / SSI specialty courses for:
• Dive Computer, Dive Tables, Decompression and technical diving
• and manuals for these things
• and purely technical information concerning Nitrox, Trimix and the DRAEGER DOLPHIN ®
• as well quite nice: our dive simulation and deco learning tool: DIVE
• which comes with a documentation, as well for free:you could learn a lot how
• dive computers work internally and why a dive table looks the way it looks
• During the last 15 years I bought tons of papers (for a lot of dollars ...)
• some of them with the copyrights, and that's why i leave them here for a free download!
• WHY?
• well, in the labs of NEDU, NMRI, UHMS (*) we have day by day
• new technologies and new diving procedures!
• And it takes quite a long time, until these things go into the traditional diving education.
• Eg.: deep stops, Nitrox and ABM (Arterial Bubble Models) have been around us since 1908 ...
• (well, well: just with another brand names ...)
• and, how long did it take for a dive computer to show up in a regular open water students manual?
• So we want to expedite these things in the D-A-CH region
• by producing faster "diveable knowledge"
• and making diving even more funny and safer!

  (*) NEDU = United States Navy Experimental Diving Unit, NMRI = Naval Medical Research Institute, UHMS = Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society

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  ... well-known and seasoned things ...

• like a usual link list
• and an unusual literature list
• embellished with my private, subjective opinion and, sometimes
• with the important and interesting documents: the cover and the complete TOC
• AND: support for all kind of scientific work in these domains

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  ... and innovative methods!

• when a member of our SubMarineConsulting-Group detects something new
• we analyze it and check, if it could be transfered to a diving technique
• we simulate everything beforehand with DIVE (and, should the situation arise:
• we produce a new release for this task)
• we check in various countries with Air, Nitrox and Trimix
• sending the dive profiles of our computers to DAN
• and document everything, as well with ultrasound-doppler measurements
• thus we created things like our:
• Ascent Pattern, procedures for optimized gas changes,
• risc minimized decompression, and, as a little piece of cake, our:
• decompression table for professional apneists

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• About me:
• I enjoy diving since 1976, and
• I am a Diving Instructor since 1988
• I am holding a couple of licenses from various training agencies, the most prominent beeing:
• PADI, or, another one: SSI Technical Extended Range
• I am specialised in:
• Nitrox, Heliox and other Mixes
• Rebreathers
• Hard Hat (Helmet) diving
• Dive Computers and Dive Tables, i.e.: Decompression Algorithms and Hyperbaric Medicine
• because I work as a serious physicist in my side-job

Albi at his tedious world record of 36 hours underwater indoor cycling

This page takes into account that some guys do NOT have ISDN or DSL. So here you will find: NO GIMMICKS, not thousands of silly *.GIFs, no fancy RETURN-Buttons to hit, no FRAME GAME, no NOTHING, etc.

Since I opened the chapter "my little virtual DIVE COMPUTER" Museum, I was inundated with tons of mails, asking for help, explanation and manuals ... Thanks for the enthusiasm around these old machines ...

Sometimes I get e-mails, asking about the kryptic things at the top of the page: this one is very easy.
One reads "SHALOM", which is hebrew and means just "hi", the next one is the same in arabic
it reads "As Salamu a'leikum". Basically both mean as well "Peace": I would prefer peace
for this particular region, because here we find the nearest and best diving place, the RED SEA!