A team of highly motivated divers

Angela Schreiter

Angela knew what she wanted to do after her very first try dive: become a diving instructor. She managed to do this in a roundabout way, and not long after, she had the next plan: to take over Punkfish.
After taking on more and more tasks in recent years, she is the centre manager from 2025 onwards and is responsible for the entire (scuba) diving routine.

Veronika Sievers

She has been diving since 1999 with ever-growing enthusiasm for everything that is wet and deep – from the Caribbean and the Mexican cenotes to dark quarry ponds. Since 2007, she has worked on four of the seven islands in the Canaries. La Palma is and remains the most beautiful, so in the end she had to stay there for a long time.
Vero is only on the island for about half the year and otherwise she is on the road a lot, concentrating on instructor training, technical diving and diving theory. The full range of diving knowledge is available on her website punkfish-academy.com.

Dani Gonzalez

Dani learned to dive with us many years ago, and then embarked on a professional career a few years ago. After becoming a divemaster at Isla Bonita, where he still works from time to time, he became an instructor with us. He sometimes works with us and sometimes with our neighbours, so you can often meet him at the dive site.

Diana Heinen

Diana worked in Germany for many years until she realised that she wanted to do something different. After trying out working at a diving centre on El Hierro and Zakynthos to see if it was really for her, she is now spending the summer with us as a newly qualified diving instructor.

Nas Githaiga

Nas did her divemaster with David, who trained with us years ago – and came to us to become an instructor. She likes La Palma and Punkfish so much, and we enjoy working with her so much that she will stay at least one more summer – and maybe even longer.

Jens Lindner

Our base photographer and new diving instructor has been with the Punkfishen since his first introductory dive: As Angela's first student, who is now travelling through Europe with little Jens, he couldn't help but stay here. He has since given up his job at an insurance company because diving is simply more cool - but he is still available as a professional photographer.

Werner Fornika

Werner is the one who makes sure our equipment is working. He is around from time to time to repair what needs to be repaired, but not just that - he is a fantastic guide and helps us when we get too busy.
Apart from diving, he does amazing fotos. You find them at Instagram - #werfotografiert.

Dominik Elsässer

With all this telescopes on La Palma, a Dive Center should have an astrophysicist. We found Dominik (or he found us), trained him until he became a fantastic instructor - and when he can't be on La Palma, he does the best online Training and dives in the lakes in Germany.
In real life, he teaches physics at Dortmund University and forms part of the group of the MAGIC Teleskopes - the ones with all this mirrors.

Thomas Immelmann

Our ‘Bio-Punkfish’ not only does the webinars on all ecology topics, but is also a diving instructor and guide who is often on La Palma. Since he got a second home in Fuencaliente, he's been even more regularly than before. He is the right person to ask about all the creatures of the sea.

We are more!

At Punkfish, you will not only meet the people who work here all year round, but also those who are currently training to become diving instructors or simply helping out.
If you would like to be part of this, please get in touch!

Simon

Simon started diving in dark, cold Alpine lakes back in 2010. Once life intervened, there was an 11-year surface interval and a move to Wales in the meantime. He resumed diving in dark, cold waters there in 2023 and is now a divemaster and aspiring tec diver.
He will be back for his Instructor Course in october :-)

Daniel

Daniel has been coming back to La Palma for years, and always prefers to spend part of his time with us. And because he always likes to help out, it was only logical that he would also become a divemaster. He will continue to guide during his next holidays – and we'll see where that leads.

Mar

Mar lives on La Palma and discovered diving for herself a few years ago. In addition to her actual job as a teacher, she is now on her way to becoming a diving instructor and will continue to step in at Isla Bonita and Punkfish – so you will see more of her.

Arne

Arne is our first Extended Range Divemaster: as a technical diver who likes to disappear deep down with Vero, he has now completed his Divemaster training. He will help out from time to time and do a little technical diving in between.
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