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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 :-).

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!