News from ‘Tauchsport Gläßer’

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27.12.2024 08:22
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A new diving centre in the east of Munich

The entire industry is talking about stagnation and declining sales. The entire industry? No, a small diving centre in the Munich area is bucking the trend and expanding!

reception area
entrance area and inner courtyard

How can that be and why? The traditional diving centre, which was well established in the Munich district, had to move because the lease had expired. While looking for a new, equivalent or better location, Torsten Gläßer came across a farm in Finnsing. During the inspection, it quickly became clear that this was the ideal location for the new diving centre. It is large enough to build a diving centre, with enough space for everything a centre needs. There is plenty of space, away from neighbours who might be disturbed by the weekend activity, and a landlord who loves the idea and is happy to help.

In just half a year, the new base has been built from the planning stage to completion. Almost 200 square metres of retail space with a wide variety of products clearly displayed in an appealing atmosphere offer the interested diver everything the heart desires. The premises for the diving school are also much more generously designed than would be possible elsewhere. The modern filling system is housed in a winter-proof location and allows certified divers to fill air tanks up to 300 bar and Nitrox. The workshop offers service for all diving products. A trained neoprene cutter is also on site and takes care of repairs and even custom-made products for all diving suits. Of course, there are also regular appointments for a cylinder inspection.

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For the theory training, there is a newly designed and huge training room that even has modern underfloor heating to keep feet warm in winter. The outdoor pool is still in the planning stage and will be implemented at the beginning of next year. It will be large enough to train beginners and to be able to complete all the necessary exercises directly at the diving centre.

Official opening of the large outdoor kitchen with a Christmas market

Torsten wouldn't be Torsten if he hadn't thought of the after-dive parties too. To ensure that occasional parties go without a hitch, there is a large outdoor kitchen with everything you need to party. Of course, the outdoor kitchen had to be tested before the end of the year, and so the first Christmas market took place in the courtyard of the diving centre on 7 December. Christmas stalls and music created a real Christmas market atmosphere. With hot mulled wine, delicious sweets, hearty pizza and freshly fried hot dogs, the physical well-being of the guests was well taken care of.

The hard-working crew led by Torsten Glässer welcomed around 120 guests that evening. Torsten also came up with a small fundraising campaign to do some good. As a diver who travels a lot, he heard about a project in the Philippines. The German environmental organisation Mama Earth is planting mangroves there. During the planting, the planters repeatedly come across large quantities of plastic waste, which has to be laboriously collected and brought ashore.

mangrove forestvon Mama Earth Project
Tauchsport Glässer supports the Mama Earth Project “Sitting on Garbage”
The chairs made from plastic waste

Ulrich Kronberg, the German publisher of the Hamburg sailing magazine Palstek, lives there and has been running Mama Earth and the mangrove project for many years. But he hadn't reckoned with the plastic. As a proper German with environmental ambitions, he couldn't just have the plastic dumped on land, so he thought about how this plastic could be recycled sensibly. He came across a company that makes garden furniture out of recycled plastic. But how do garden chairs fit into an environmental project? Then he had the idea of having chairs produced for schoolchildren instead.
In the Philippines, there is a free school system for everyone, but each child has to bring their own chair and writing materials. Many very poor families cannot afford this and therefore do not send their children to school. This is how the ‘Sitting on Garbage’ project came about in Uli's mind. The collected and recycled plastic was used to make school chairs that are provided to children from poor families free of charge.

With a donation of just 38 euros, anyone can support this project. The 38 euros pays for the plastic waste collector, transport, the recycling company, the finished chair and some basic school supplies. This means that a child can go to school and get a better chance for the future. The chairs are also passed from child to child, supporting even more generations. Should a chair break, the manufacturer offers a 10-year guarantee and the chair will be replaced free of charge.

Equipment area
Filling station
training area
Showroom
Showroom and foyer

Torsten Gläßer has now also made this project his own and collected money for 25 chairs at the Christmas party, which will now enable another complete Filipino class to receive an education and ensure a better future and a better world. Education is important to understand the connections between environmental problems for our planet and to use resources carefully.

We wish the team at Tauchsport Gläßer a good start in the new diving centre and hope to see many new divers who will help to live and dive in a more environmentally conscious way. A healthy and eventful new diving year 2025.

See you soon somewhere under water, Gerald Nowak and Sibylle Gerlinger

More Information:
Torsten Gläßer
Auweg 24
85464 Finsing

telephone: +49 89 8563 1006
email: info@tauchsport-glaesser.de
web : www.tauchsport-glaesser.de
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Environmental project "Sitting on garbage"