Hi, this is a website about wreck diving and especially 3D modeling of wrecks. I have created so much material (photos, videos, site survey reports and 3D models) that it was time to put it on a dedicated website. Holger Buss
We were on the BOOT show in Düsseldorf / Germany. Some of my models were shown and I held some presentations about wreck identification and photogrammetry.
19m (63ft) unter sea level – probably the deepest mailbox in the world. The diving center Kreidesee offers to send postcards, which can be sent from this mailbox. For this purpose, waterproof postcards can be purchased in the diving center. The mailbox is emptied weekly and the cards are stamped and sent. Build your own … Continue reading Deepest mailbox of the world→
I used the opportunity in Egypt to capture the missing areas of the Thistlegorm wreck. The starboard locomotive was missing as well as the bow area and the sandy bottom. We spent one whole day at that wreck and I made three dives there to scan these areas. Visit my page of the Thistlegorm here … Continue reading Thistlegorm V2→
I captured one cargo hold of the Thistlegorm. It contains trucks, motorcycles, guns, airplane wings, etc… She is full of equipment for the war during WW2. You can find the complete ship here: Thistlegorm 3D at Sketchfab 3D-Print You can download the STL-File here
The ship was built 1871 in Sunderland. It had sails and a steam machine. A spare propeller lies on the deck. 78m x 10m Cargo: CoalHit the reef Shag Rock in the red sea in 1881.I scanned the wreck on Nov 15th 2022 during one dive.
The German TV station NDR filmed my work. We shot in my workshop and in the museum WINDSTÄRKE 10 (Cuxhaven). The museum has recently exhibited one of my models – the Escort vessel V812. During the takes, I scanned the conning tower of Submarine HMS E24, that is exhibited in the ‘wreck section’ of the … Continue reading TV Shootings NDR→
The museum WINDSTÄRKE 10 (Cuxhaven) added one of my models to the exhibition: Escort vessel V812. This wreck was identified by me and my team Gezeitentaucher in 2019. You can find more ‘making of’ here. Making of
I am proud to tell that we can exhibit models, pictures, paintings and stories about two wrecks in the maritime museum of Klaipėda / Lithuania. We from the BalticSeaHeritageRescueProject worked on the creation of the exhibits for about three years. About 500.000 visitors will see this exhibition during the next 12 month. In fact, these … Continue reading Exhibition in Lithuanian Museum→
There was a conference about the stories of Baltic Sea at the maritime museum of Klaipeda. I spoke about “Wreck identification and photogrammetry”. You can find all presentations of the conference here and here
We “Gezeitentaucher” (tide divers) finally got our new boat. We made our first trip to the escort vessel “Vorpostenboot V810”, that sank July 1944 after air raid attack. More here
We just finished the project week: “Wrecks – Identification, documentation and 3D” of the Baltic Sea Heritage Rescue Project BSHRP. Together with captain Linas and his diving ship NZ55, we dived seven days in the Baltic Sea. We dived and scanned some new exciting wrecks. On an international conference in September we will present some … Continue reading Klaipeda 2022→
Elmar invited to the opening of the Grossensee exhibition in the museum www.museum-hoisdorf.de They are showing my collection of these models: Grossensee Numerous visitors visited the special exhibition “Wrecks in the Grossensee” in the village museum on Saturday. For 2.5 years, a volunteer conservationist had been carrying out underwater archaeological investigations in the Großesee for … Continue reading Vernissage Grossensee→
In July my wife and I scanned the famous Salem Express. 1991 the ferry struck a reef in the Red Sea. The accident happened at night and the ferry sank very quickly. Only 200 people were able to save themselves. Officially, there was talk of around 700 victims, probably significantly more. The wreck has been … Continue reading Scanning the Salem Express→
Some models cannot be colored with simple brushes. So, I decided to try airbrush. I attended an airbrush taster course and am amazed at what is possible with this technique. For sure I will use this in addition to my normal brush painting. I was at the professional airbrush artist Roland Kuck
We went to Egypt – again. This time just for holiday with the family. Anyway, we took the opportunity to dive and scan some wrecks there. We went to the hotel Jaz Makadina at Makadi Bay. It is close to Hurghada and has a diving base of Scubaworld. We met the the manager Herbert there … Continue reading Hurghada→
I am proud to announce that the international magazine DIVE issue # 27 has covered our 3D liveaboard project in the Red Sea. As you know my wife and me scanned 8 1/2 wrecks in fife days. Including the famous wrecks of Thistlegorm, Giannis D, Chrisoula K, Carnatic, Ulysses, Kimon M, … You can find … Continue reading DIVE Magazine→
Elmar, Erhardt and I were invited by Kosi from this diving base: https://dive-schwerin.de, to dive two very interesting wrecks: A fighter aircraft from 1954 and a wooden wreck from 1911. Find the models here: SchwerinerSee
The German magazine Divemaster (Issue 113) released my artice about the famous Thistlegorm. On eight pages, my wife and I tell the story of how we scanned and built the model of the wreck. You can find the model here: Thistlegorm
My wife Nicola and I were invited by the diving base www.atlantis-tauchshop.hamburg to scan the wrecks around Fehmarn. You can find the scans and the wrecks here: Fehmarn An interesting meeting We were pleased to meet Ingo Oppelt. He is the captain of a wreck search and survey boat on the Baltic Sea and has … Continue reading Fehmarn→
I successfully completed diving instructor exam (TL**) in southern France It was an exciting week with a great team! I took the opportunity to scan two wrecks.: Ville de Grasse an Michel C. And of course my darling was with me … so my 3D printer We were able to surprise the trainers at the … Continue reading France – Hyeres→
Kreidesee – again! There was the DIR-GER meeting of tec-divers that we wanted to join. Always a pleasure to meet all the crazy divers. And there were still some items missing in my 3D-collection. You can find the complete Hemmoor collection here.And the 3D-Files for Download here. Concrete bomb – Betonbombe Boat at E5 Quite … Continue reading Hemmoor→
My wife and me went on a diving safari to the Red Sea. We did the ‘North Tour’ with lots of wrecks. The Goal: Nine wrecks in fife Days – that was quite a challenge! We took the Ship MY BLUE PEARL from https://www.blueplanet-liveaboards.com/ It will take some days to process all the data. You … Continue reading Egypt 1→
SEE IM BERG – “MESSINGHAUSEN” – An old quarry in a mountain is a great diving spot in Germany. https://www.see-im-berg.de/ Find the files for 3D-Printing here: Messinghausen
Six pages in the diving magazine #wetnotes about our investigation of a wreck in the Baltic Sea. The inevitably uninteresting wreck ‘W30’ turns out to be the training ship ‘Carl Zeiss’ that sank in the Baltic Sea during World War II. We examined and scanned it as part of the BalticSeaHeritageRescueProjects. My model will be … Continue reading Wetnotes: Carl Zeiss→
There is an old lake “Großensee” close to Hamburg. The underwater archaeologist Elmar Klemm examines the history of the lake and the wooden wrecks. I was invited to make the 3D-Models for the project.Elmars website: historytaucher.de See my 3D-Collection at Sketchfab.com here Wreck One The main wreck and the biggest so far. It was an … Continue reading Grossensee→
The Escort vessel “Vorpostenboot 812” was found and identified in 2019 by the Gezeitentaucher .Here is the report: Bericht Webseite: V812 .2021 we managed to make a complete 3D-Scan of the wreck. Now it is 3D-Printed and will be displayed in a Museum in Germany. Diver Model My wife was the model for all the tiny divers … Continue reading Model of V812→
Wow, there are quite a lot models from the old military harbor. Diving there is the best during winter time. You can find my Collection here: Wilhelmshaven
English: There is a quite huge pontoon in the old harbor of Wilhelmshaven in a water depth of 10m. Obviously it was used to transport round items with 4,7m in diameter. Probably it was used to transport parts of submarines during the Second World War. 27 submarines were built in the harbor of Wilhelmshaven. The … Continue reading Wilhelmshaven Ponton→
In the North of the old military harbor in Wilhelmshaven (Banter See) there are two quite big objects. We identified them as swim jetties (German: Schwimmsteg). They were built during the Second World War and can be seen in historical photos. Can you find the bicycle in the picture? Comparison today and 1945 – You … Continue reading Wilhelmshaven Old Jetty→
The ‘Banter See’ is an old harbor at the north sea and a good diving spot. 1986 a little UW-Station / Habitat was placed there in 10m water depth by the local diving club.You can download the 3D-Files here Short ‘making of’ video
Everybody who knows Hemmor, knows the truck.It is standing on a bridge in front of the ‘Rüttler’ – a device to separate chulk from stones. You can download the 3D-Model here
I made some Christmas presents for my friends from the ‘Gezeitentaucher’ team.It is a 3D Model of wreck of SS ELSA that we found 2007 in the North sea close to the German island Norderney. It took 10 years to identify it. This year we were able to scan it for 3D in only one … Continue reading Christmas presents for the ‘Gezeitentaucher’→
I have an article about photogrammetry in the German diving magazine ‘Wetnotes’. Twelve pages including the article about the wreck of OSSIAN in The North sea.
These cars in the chalk lake Hemmoor seem to have an accident.Depth: 20m Here my Hemmoor collection: Link You can find the 3D-Files in the Download-section
This puppet is located in the Hemmoor lake in 20m water depth. It seems that she looks down the abyss.Here my Hemmoor collection: Link You can Download the 3D-File in the Download section!
We went to Kas – turkey for diving in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s a really nice village in Turkey. You can find the my 3D-Models of that trip here: Turkey | Dive3D.eu
Yesterday we gave a 3D Model of ‘WreckX’ to the grandson of the captain. The steamer “Elsa” sank in 1936 in a gale storm in the north sea. Ten men died – two survived. The Team #gezeitentaucher found the wreck in 2007. In 2017, after many measurements and many dives, we finally identified it. Last … Continue reading Weitendorf & Wreck X→
The north sea has difficult conditions for divers. There is much current because of the tides and the visibility is always an issue. It was a challenge to try 3D-Models here. But it was worth a try. Our team Gezeitentaucher had some days together with GhostDiving. I used the opportunity and tried 3D-Capturing. of three … Continue reading 3D in the north sea→
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Scanning without getting wet? Sounds crazy, but is possible!You can find my collection here: Art
We were on the BOOT show in Düsseldorf / Germany. Some of my models were shown and I held some presentations about wreck identification and photogrammetry.
19m (63ft) unter sea level – probably the deepest mailbox in the world. The diving center Kreidesee offers to send postcards, which can be sent from this mailbox. For this purpose, waterproof postcards can be purchased in the diving center. The mailbox is emptied weekly and the cards are stamped and sent. Build your own … Continue reading Deepest mailbox of the world
I used the opportunity in Egypt to capture the missing areas of the Thistlegorm wreck. The starboard locomotive was missing as well as the bow area and the sandy bottom. We spent one whole day at that wreck and I made three dives there to scan these areas. Visit my page of the Thistlegorm here … Continue reading Thistlegorm V2
I captured one cargo hold of the Thistlegorm. It contains trucks, motorcycles, guns, airplane wings, etc… She is full of equipment for the war during WW2. You can find the complete ship here: Thistlegorm 3D at Sketchfab 3D-Print You can download the STL-File here
The ship was built 1871 in Sunderland. It had sails and a steam machine. A spare propeller lies on the deck. 78m x 10m Cargo: CoalHit the reef Shag Rock in the red sea in 1881.I scanned the wreck on Nov 15th 2022 during one dive.
The German TV station NDR made a small report about my work. It was sent Nov. 7th 2022. You can see the video here: Mediathek
The German TV station NDR filmed my work. We shot in my workshop and in the museum WINDSTÄRKE 10 (Cuxhaven). The museum has recently exhibited one of my models – the Escort vessel V812. During the takes, I scanned the conning tower of Submarine HMS E24, that is exhibited in the ‘wreck section’ of the … Continue reading TV Shootings NDR
The museum WINDSTÄRKE 10 (Cuxhaven) added one of my models to the exhibition: Escort vessel V812. This wreck was identified by me and my team Gezeitentaucher in 2019. You can find more ‘making of’ here. Making of
I am proud to tell that we can exhibit models, pictures, paintings and stories about two wrecks in the maritime museum of Klaipėda / Lithuania. We from the BalticSeaHeritageRescueProject worked on the creation of the exhibits for about three years. About 500.000 visitors will see this exhibition during the next 12 month. In fact, these … Continue reading Exhibition in Lithuanian Museum
There was a conference about the stories of Baltic Sea at the maritime museum of Klaipeda. I spoke about “Wreck identification and photogrammetry”. You can find all presentations of the conference here and here
We “Gezeitentaucher” (tide divers) finally got our new boat. We made our first trip to the escort vessel “Vorpostenboot V810”, that sank July 1944 after air raid attack. More here
We just finished the project week: “Wrecks – Identification, documentation and 3D” of the Baltic Sea Heritage Rescue Project BSHRP. Together with captain Linas and his diving ship NZ55, we dived seven days in the Baltic Sea. We dived and scanned some new exciting wrecks. On an international conference in September we will present some … Continue reading Klaipeda 2022
Elmar invited to the opening of the Grossensee exhibition in the museum www.museum-hoisdorf.de They are showing my collection of these models: Grossensee Numerous visitors visited the special exhibition “Wrecks in the Grossensee” in the village museum on Saturday. For 2.5 years, a volunteer conservationist had been carrying out underwater archaeological investigations in the Großesee for … Continue reading Vernissage Grossensee
In July my wife and I scanned the famous Salem Express. 1991 the ferry struck a reef in the Red Sea. The accident happened at night and the ferry sank very quickly. Only 200 people were able to save themselves. Officially, there was talk of around 700 victims, probably significantly more. The wreck has been … Continue reading Scanning the Salem Express
Some models cannot be colored with simple brushes. So, I decided to try airbrush. I attended an airbrush taster course and am amazed at what is possible with this technique. For sure I will use this in addition to my normal brush painting. I was at the professional airbrush artist Roland Kuck
We went to Egypt – again. This time just for holiday with the family. Anyway, we took the opportunity to dive and scan some wrecks there. We went to the hotel Jaz Makadina at Makadi Bay. It is close to Hurghada and has a diving base of Scubaworld. We met the the manager Herbert there … Continue reading Hurghada
I am proud to announce that the international magazine DIVE issue # 27 has covered our 3D liveaboard project in the Red Sea. As you know my wife and me scanned 8 1/2 wrecks in fife days. Including the famous wrecks of Thistlegorm, Giannis D, Chrisoula K, Carnatic, Ulysses, Kimon M, … You can find … Continue reading DIVE Magazine
Elmar, Erhardt and I were invited by Kosi from this diving base: https://dive-schwerin.de, to dive two very interesting wrecks: A fighter aircraft from 1954 and a wooden wreck from 1911. Find the models here: SchwerinerSee
The German magazine Divemaster (Issue 113) released my artice about the famous Thistlegorm. On eight pages, my wife and I tell the story of how we scanned and built the model of the wreck. You can find the model here: Thistlegorm
My wife Nicola and I were invited by the diving base www.atlantis-tauchshop.hamburg to scan the wrecks around Fehmarn. You can find the scans and the wrecks here: Fehmarn An interesting meeting We were pleased to meet Ingo Oppelt. He is the captain of a wreck search and survey boat on the Baltic Sea and has … Continue reading Fehmarn
I successfully completed diving instructor exam (TL**) in southern France It was an exciting week with a great team! I took the opportunity to scan two wrecks.: Ville de Grasse an Michel C. And of course my darling was with me … so my 3D printer We were able to surprise the trainers at the … Continue reading France – Hyeres
Kreidesee – again! There was the DIR-GER meeting of tec-divers that we wanted to join. Always a pleasure to meet all the crazy divers. And there were still some items missing in my 3D-collection. You can find the complete Hemmoor collection here.And the 3D-Files for Download here. Concrete bomb – Betonbombe Boat at E5 Quite … Continue reading Hemmoor
My wife and me went on a diving safari to the Red Sea. We did the ‘North Tour’ with lots of wrecks. The Goal: Nine wrecks in fife Days – that was quite a challenge! We took the Ship MY BLUE PEARL from https://www.blueplanet-liveaboards.com/ It will take some days to process all the data. You … Continue reading Egypt 1
SEE IM BERG – “MESSINGHAUSEN” – An old quarry in a mountain is a great diving spot in Germany. https://www.see-im-berg.de/ Find the files for 3D-Printing here: Messinghausen
Six pages in the diving magazine #wetnotes about our investigation of a wreck in the Baltic Sea. The inevitably uninteresting wreck ‘W30’ turns out to be the training ship ‘Carl Zeiss’ that sank in the Baltic Sea during World War II. We examined and scanned it as part of the BalticSeaHeritageRescueProjects. My model will be … Continue reading Wetnotes: Carl Zeiss
There is an old lake “Großensee” close to Hamburg. The underwater archaeologist Elmar Klemm examines the history of the lake and the wooden wrecks. I was invited to make the 3D-Models for the project.Elmars website: historytaucher.de See my 3D-Collection at Sketchfab.com here Wreck One The main wreck and the biggest so far. It was an … Continue reading Grossensee
The Escort vessel “Vorpostenboot 812” was found and identified in 2019 by the Gezeitentaucher .Here is the report: Bericht Webseite: V812 .2021 we managed to make a complete 3D-Scan of the wreck. Now it is 3D-Printed and will be displayed in a Museum in Germany. Diver Model My wife was the model for all the tiny divers … Continue reading Model of V812
Wow, there are quite a lot models from the old military harbor. Diving there is the best during winter time. You can find my Collection here: Wilhelmshaven
English: There is a quite huge pontoon in the old harbor of Wilhelmshaven in a water depth of 10m. Obviously it was used to transport round items with 4,7m in diameter. Probably it was used to transport parts of submarines during the Second World War. 27 submarines were built in the harbor of Wilhelmshaven. The … Continue reading Wilhelmshaven Ponton
In the North of the old military harbor in Wilhelmshaven (Banter See) there are two quite big objects. We identified them as swim jetties (German: Schwimmsteg). They were built during the Second World War and can be seen in historical photos. Can you find the bicycle in the picture? Comparison today and 1945 – You … Continue reading Wilhelmshaven Old Jetty
The ‘Banter See’ is an old harbor at the north sea and a good diving spot. 1986 a little UW-Station / Habitat was placed there in 10m water depth by the local diving club.You can download the 3D-Files here Short ‘making of’ video
Everybody who knows Hemmor, knows the truck.It is standing on a bridge in front of the ‘Rüttler’ – a device to separate chulk from stones. You can download the 3D-Model here
I made some Christmas presents for my friends from the ‘Gezeitentaucher’ team.It is a 3D Model of wreck of SS ELSA that we found 2007 in the North sea close to the German island Norderney. It took 10 years to identify it. This year we were able to scan it for 3D in only one … Continue reading Christmas presents for the ‘Gezeitentaucher’
I have an article about photogrammetry in the German diving magazine ‘Wetnotes’. Twelve pages including the article about the wreck of OSSIAN in The North sea.
These cars in the chalk lake Hemmoor seem to have an accident.Depth: 20m Here my Hemmoor collection: Link You can find the 3D-Files in the Download-section
The shark of Hemmoor. You can download the model in the Download section.
This puppet is located in the Hemmoor lake in 20m water depth. It seems that she looks down the abyss.Here my Hemmoor collection: Link You can Download the 3D-File in the Download section!
I managed to capture a diver on a platform at Hemmoor. It took several tries as it was not that easy for the diver to keep 100% still.
Model of the DC3 Airplane at KAS / Turkey
I made a short 1:30 video about the “Rüttler” in Hemmoor.
We went to Kas – turkey for diving in the Mediterranean Sea. It’s a really nice village in Turkey. You can find the my 3D-Models of that trip here: Turkey | Dive3D.eu
Yesterday we gave a 3D Model of ‘WreckX’ to the grandson of the captain. The steamer “Elsa” sank in 1936 in a gale storm in the north sea. Ten men died – two survived. The Team #gezeitentaucher found the wreck in 2007. In 2017, after many measurements and many dives, we finally identified it. Last … Continue reading Weitendorf & Wreck X
The north sea has difficult conditions for divers. There is much current because of the tides and the visibility is always an issue. It was a challenge to try 3D-Models here. But it was worth a try. Our team Gezeitentaucher had some days together with GhostDiving. I used the opportunity and tried 3D-Capturing. of three … Continue reading 3D in the north sea
The lake in Hemmoor is a main diving spot in Germany. It is nice to practice there a little bit with my whole family. You can find my models here