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One, Two, Trimix

Thursday, August 5th, 2021

It’s been about 8 years now, since I started my journey as a diver. From PADI OWD over CMAS**/*** to Trainer-C and dive Instructor in 2019, all of my diving “career” has been pretty much standard. Last year then I took my first steps into the area of technical diving with the DTSA TEC Basic certification. A few weeks ago finally I stepped up the game a notch by attaining my first Trimix certification (DTSA Trimix* / CMAS Normoxic Trimix Diver).

Apart from the Apnoe, Sidemount, UW photography / videography and rebreather certifications, this pretty much brings me close to having all the certifications in VDST. A DTSA Trimix** (CMAS Hypoxic Trimix Diver) is certain to follow at some point in the future. But at the moment I want to invest more time into honing my diving skills and furthering my instructor levels (diving instructor level 2 and instructor for technical diving are both in the making šŸ˜‰ ).

Veni, vidi, vici

Thursday, October 10th, 2019

About 2 and a half years ago, I started my long term goal of becoming a dive instructor in my dive club. Last saturday this plan was brought to a successfull end in Deep Blue Diving Fuerteventura.

In order to get there, me and my TL* aspirant buddies had to endure quite some hardships. Apart from exams under water, we also had to show that we are capable above water, both as an exam, but also since the weather conditions where anything but favorable. More than once we had to cling desperately to the boat, getting our equipment in, while the atlantic ocean was hitting us with high waves and howling wind.

In the evening, though beat and tired, there was stuff to learn and dives to prepare for the next day. You could often see us playacting out how a specific excercise should work out under water the next day. Every now and than it worked out quite differently. But due to our good teamwork and the stubborn will of everyone to see this thing through, in the end, we all managed to achive the wanted result.

Very tired but glad no to have faltered, we all landed in Stuttgart on Thuesday. I came to Fuerteventura to get my TL* license, but I came home with much more than that: A bunch of new friends :-).

Aaaannd…. Action!

Thursday, September 19th, 2019

Last Sunday I had the unique opportunity and pleasure, to take part in a small feature, shot at Kreidesee Hemmoor, for the child program 1, 2 oder 3. The feature was produced by Mingamedia GmbH and the underwater recordings were done by Jens-Uwe Lamm from uw-Film.

Luckily I did not have to step in front of the camera (I’m a bit camera shy :-D) but was only there to help light the scene and provide assistance if necessary. So my main task was “Shut up and stay out of the camera”, which I’m apparently good at :-P. Julian, Marven and Helge from my dive club (Tauchsportgemeinschaft SCUBI e.V. Stade) had to do all the hard work.

Unfortunately the weather conditions and the visibility left a lot to be desired. So my lighting became more important than we originally though. Holding the light in the right direction, keeping an eye on the camera and the man behind it (so I could move where he needed me) and keeping an eye out for my buddy at the same time, is nothing if not challenging.

Spending some much needed light (Photo: Jens-Uwe Lamm from uw-film)

After the first scene at the wreck of the Hemmoor was shot, I could relax a little bit, while my buddies had to film an over water scene in a small boat that the dive center at the Kreidesee kindly lend us for the shoots. First on the pier and later on in the water. The perfect opportunity for me to get out my camera gear and take some pictures of the shooting.

Eventually both scenes where also successfully captured and we used the boat to get to the destination of our next and final shoot, the big white. Finding that shark from the surface, when you’ve never seen the landscape from this side of the water surface isn’t as easy as we’d though. But Jens showed us the right direction. Eventually the last scene was captured and Jens had the opportunity to shoot some B-Roll and make a group picture.

The group behind the feature (Photo: Jens-Uwe Lamm from uw-film)

All in all it was a very interesting and challenging opportuniy and I am greatfull to had the chance to be part of it.

CuraƧao 2015 – A vacation to remember.

Sunday, November 13th, 2016

Finally found the time to add the picture of my CuraƧao vacation from 2015 to the album. This truly was one awesome vacation. CuraƧao… I’ll be back!