PADUM DIVING

Padum Playground

Small web tools the PADUM DIVING team builds for teaching, planning and the odd experiment. Each one is a separate app living at its own path.

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Gradient Factors /gradientfactor A Bühlmann ZHL-16C sandbox. Move the GF pair and watch tissue tensions, M-values, the ceiling and the whole stop schedule move with it. Decompression Teaching tool Live Open First-Stage Regulator /regulator A working model of the valve that keeps you breathing. Change depth and tank pressure and watch spring, water and gas pressure balance each other in real time. EN/TH. Equipment Teaching tool EN / ไทย Live Open Regulator Lab /regulator-lab Step through how every kind of regulator works, first stage and second: unbalanced and balanced pistons, the diaphragm, downstream valves and the venturi knob. Drag depth and cylinder pressure, and hold Breathe to watch a live breath. Equipment Teaching tool EN Live Open Underwater Photography /photography A camera you can get wrong for free. Set aperture, shutter, ISO and strobes and watch the frame respond — wide angle and macro, backscatter, depth of field, and drills to practise before you get wet. EN/TH. Photography Teaching tool EN / ไทย Live Open Underwater Navigation /navigation A dive site you can get lost in for free. Compass, first-person view, current and limited visibility on four maps. Reciprocal and pattern navigation, search and recovery, natural navigation and leading a dive. EN/TH. Navigation Teaching tool EN / ไทย Live Open Buoyancy Trainer /buoyancy Neutral buoyancy is four controls that all answer late. Watch the delay between the button and the depth drawn to scale, then practise three scored drills against it — weight check, safety-stop hover, and a breath-only fin pivot. EN/TH. Skills Teaching tool EN / ไทย Live Open Tides & Currents /tides The current is not the tide — it is the slope of the tide. Tide curves for Thai dive sites, computed from real gauge records where a gauge exists and from a global tide model where none does, with slack windows, spring and neap, and an estimate of how hard the water will be running — plus a year planner built on the Navy’s printed tide tables, with a trip window finder. EN/TH. Planning Teaching tool EN / ไทย Live Open