On the first weekend in November, VIT organized a VIT / CMAS Crossover Instructor Exam at the Tauchschule Neufahrn near Munich. Four diving instructors, including base manager Heidi Gündermann, met on Saturday morning with the VIT instructor team consisting of Robert Schneck (TL^★★★), Stephan Schöppl (TL^★★★-candidate) and director of training … read more

VIT Environmental Officer Uwe Scherner reports on his two lectures at Rotary Munich - Martinsried and Lions Club Freising: At Rotary in Munich / Martinsried I gave a short lecture on relationships and cycles in the lake, food chains and food pyramids. Afterwards the participants were allowed to roll up their … read more

With 14,000 employees worldwide and 350 in Weilheim, the company Xylem is one of the big players in the field of water analysis. Among other things, the Xylem Watermark Foundation supports projects to provide people in crisis areas with clean water. On July 31, 2019, a Xylem Watermark Event was … read more

The environmental department of the VIT has supported the Fridolfing holiday program with the topic "freshwater biology". The Wasserwacht organized at Fridolfinger See a variety of attractions such as a self-built waterslide on a slide on the meadow in the lake, swimming, boating and much more. Uwe Scherner brought along a … read more

With deepest sadness the VIT had to take note of the fact that our Vice President and Treasurer Ronald Pohl passed away on 1 July 2019. With Ronald we lose not only an Examiner, a longtime member, a mentor and friend, but our treasurer, whose self-sacrificing commitment to the VIT we … read more

Schwarzenfeld - Channel 16, 406 MHz, 121.5 MHz, DSC 70, AIS, Cospas-Sarsat ... the terms of the rescue frequencies are like most jungle divers, and in fact most of them are "in the forest". Divers are being confronted with it more and more frequently by emergency call stations, which are … read more

... but let's start at the beginning: At the boot 2019 – the 50th anniversary of the world's largest water sports fair in Düsseldorf. Following the motto of the jubilee fair, the VIT was also part of it, because once the entire dive industry meets once a year, of course we … read more