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 and he arranged two wreck diving trips to support my scanning work. I can show the first results of the Minesweeper and a fishing trawler now. The trawler is just some diving minutes apart from the minesweeper, so we decided to scan both during one dive.
One bigger wreck is still on process and I will publish it later.
The minesweeper lies in 30m water depth. The correct name was “Minija”. She sank Feb 2nd 1970 after an Israeli airstrike. The visibility can be quite quite poor, caused by other divers and strong current.
You can find the Model here: El Mina
The fishing vessel “FV Mohamed Hasabella” lies close to the mine sweeper “El Mina” in 30m water depth. Only some minutes diving distance at south of the wreck of the minesweeper at Hurghada, Red Sea (Egypt).
You can find the Model here: HurghadaTrawler
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 our models and a ‘Making of’ here: AegyptModels.
Buy the magazine here: DIVE issue #27
Read the article here
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
We were pleased to meet Ingo Oppelt. He is the captain of a wreck search and survey boat on the Baltic Sea and has been an active wreck diver since 1994. He is known in the diving world for his books on wreck diving in the western Baltic Sea, published in 2007 and 2019.
Wracktauchen – Die schönsten Tauchplätze der Ostsee
ISBN: 978-3-00-064263-0
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 end of the week with the finished model. This was the first time the captain and former base manager of Diving-Giens was completely speechless!
You can find the models here: France
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.
Quite deep, but with a great visibility.
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 can find the models here: Aegypt
SEE IM BERG – “MESSINGHAUSEN” – An old quarry in a mountain is a great diving spot in Germany.
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 exhibited in the Maritime Museum in Lithuania.
Here the survey report: https://dive3d.eu/reports/CarlZeiss.pdf
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
The main wreck and the biggest so far. It was an old fisherman boat.
Drawing by wrackzeichner.de
Drawing by wrackzeichner.de
We found three other wrecks of different ages and a old bathing tub.
A short video by Jens-Uwe Lamm about the project (German)
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.
My wife was the model for all the tiny divers 🙂
Here a video with ‘Voice Over’
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 diameter of 4,7m would fit to the pressure hull of submarines type VII.
On the pontoon there are masses of stones, so it looks like that it was sunk there on purpose.
German: Im alten Werfthafen von Wilhelmshaven (Banter See) liegt ein ziemlich riesiger Ponton in 10m Wassertiefe. Offenbar diente er zum Transport runder Gegenstände mit 4,7m Durchmesser. Vermutlich diente es im Zweiten Weltkrieg zum Transport von U-Boot-Teilen. 27 U-Boote wurden dort in Wilhelmshaven gebaut. Der Durchmesser von 4,7m würde auf den Druckkörper von U-Booten Typ VII passen. Auf dem Ponton liegen Massen von Steinen, und es sieht also so aus, als wäre er absichtlich dort versenkt worden.
Dimensions
Länge: 67,2 m; Breite: 6,2 m; Tiefgang: 4,8 m; Höhe: 9,6 m
Druckkörper (Durchmesser): 4,7 m; Druckkörperstärke: 20,5 mm
Tauchtiefe (konstruiert/erreicht): 120 m/240 m
Abtauchzeit: 30 sek.
Verdrängung über Wasser: 759 m³; Verdrängung unter Wasser: 1.070 m³
