Federal teaching and research facility of the DLRG
The federal teaching and research facility of the German Life Saving Society (BLFS) Berlin is located in the Berlin district of Spandau on Scharfen Lanke.
The core of the federal teaching and research facility is a deep noise simulation system , the so-called diving tower Berlin. The diving tower consists of a 12 m high steel tower filled with 31 m³ of water. This corresponds to a pressure of 8 m water column. A pressure chamber for six people with six oxygen breathing points and the possibility of mixed gas (helium-oxygen or trimix) is connected) to work. In the diving tower and in the pressure chamber, dives up to 100 m depth can currently be simulated. For this purpose, the pressure chamber located above the diving tower is filled with compressed air, so that the divers are brought “dry” to a predetermined physical depth before their actual “wet” dive. The standard dive is 50 meters deep. A pressure of 5.2 bar is generated in the pressure chamber, which corresponds to the pressure in 42 meters of water. The last 8 meters are then dived “wet” in the diving tower.
The facility is used:
- For the training and education of operational, professional and recreational divers.
- For the treatment of diving accidents and caisson workers.
- For pressure chamber tests for diving fitness examinations.
- For research in the field of underwater medicine.
- Hyperbaric chamber treatment of diving accidents.
- For testing technical devices under pressure.
Under safe conditions, dives beyond the 30 m mark can be carried out in the Berlin diving tower . With this training the divers can later recognize the first signs of a deeper exchange better in the open water.
The planning of the facility goes back to the mid-1960s, when the DLRG Berlin built a new home for the water rescuers, which was planned by Ludwig Leo as the architect. The then President of the DLRG, Siegfried John, was very committed to the installation of this worldwide unique diving simulator. The first dives were carried out in 1974 in the Berlin diving tower. In the period that followed, numerous diving accidents were treated in the DLRG's decompression chamber . The unusual ramp shape of the building resulted from the consideration of moving injured persons to a mobile pressure chamber to Spandau, to drive this pressure chamber up to the building with an inclined elevator and to dock there with the fixed pressure chamber so that the patient can leave the mobile without pressure loss can be brought into the stationary chamber.
The decompression chamber of the diving tower system has been listed as a treatment chamber at the Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine (GTÜM) since November 2010 and the DLRG Berlin with its diving tower system has been a member of the Association of German Pressure Chamber Centers (VDD) since 2011 .
Web links
- DLRG Berlin federal teaching and research facility
- DLRG Tube via the DLRG diving tower Berlin
- DLRG-TV film about the federal teaching and research facility
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
Individual evidence
- ↑ DLRG diving tower Berlin. DLRG - German Life Saving Society, Landesverband Berlin eV, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 28 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 52" E