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Swiss.aquanaut

I'm a 30-year-old underwater photographer and diver based in Switzerland. I started diving to explore what most people never see: the hidden worlds beneath lakes, oceans, and coastlines that don't make it onto travel magazines. My goal is simple: capture the beauty that exists in places nobody's selling you trips to, and show a generation of young people that diving is accessible, meaningful, and worth pursuing. Through my lens, I'm proving that the most stunning underwater moments don't require tropical destinations or endless money. They require presence, skill, and the willingness to look where others don't.

Rock bottom: The minimum gas pressure needed for you AND your buddy to safely ascend from your current maximum depth. The common mistake: "I keep 50 bar as reserve, so I'm safe." This is arbitrary and often insufficient. What rock bottom
Overhead environment: Any situation where you cannot ascend directly to the surface. Examples: Caves and caverns with rock ceiling above you. Wreck penetration, inside shipwrecks with walls blocking direct ascent. Ice diving with solid ice above. Ke
Narcosis depth: The depth at which you start experiencing nitrogen narcosis effects. The myth: "Narcosis starts at 35 meters for everyone." Not true. It's highly individual. Reality: Some people feel narcosis at 30 meters. Others don't fe
Visibility is how far you can see horizontally underwater. Measured in meters or feet. Beginners think: Good visibility = 30+ meters, bad visibility = anything less. This is wrong. What actually matters: 10 meters visibility is perfectly fine for m
Beginners confuse these. They're completely different. Safety stop: Optional (but strongly recommended). Done at 3-5 meters for 3-5 minutes after any dive. Adds safety buffer by allowing extra nitrogen off-gassing. If you skip it, you're not violati
Your pressure gauge shows a number. In Europe it's usually "bar." In the US it's "PSI." But what do these actually mean? Bar is a unit of pressure. 1 bar equals atmospheric pressure at sea level. When your gauge shows 200 bar, th
Weighting is how much lead you wear to achieve neutral buoyancy. Most beginners are over-weighted. This makes diving harder and less safe. With too much weight: You sink too fast. You add lots of air to BCD to compensate. Now you're rising. You dump
Some beginners want to touch everything. Don't. Three reasons: safety, conservation, and buoyancy. Safety: Many marine organisms have defense mechanisms you can't see. That "rock" might be a stonefish with venomous spines that can kill you
New divers worry about depth. But statistically, most diving injuries happen during ascent, not at depth. Fast ascents cause pulmonary barotrauma (lung overexpansion) and decompression sickness. Both can be fatal. Going deep slowly and staying withi
You look at something for 10 seconds. Look up. Your buddy is gone. This happens constantly. Here's the standard procedure: Stop moving immediately. Don't swim randomly searching. Look around in a full 360-degree circle. Check above you, they might h

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