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 dive.
North Sea: WreckX – Steamer ELSA
Year of construction: 1917 Sunk: 1932 Cause: storm We discovered this wreck in 2007 and have already dived many times. After seminars in underwater archeology, we had the necessary tools and were able to clearly identify them. Here the survey report WrackX Webseite: WrackX
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.
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 month we went there again and I managed to get a full scan of the wreck in one 65min dive. I love this model – it shows more details that we were able to document manually in the past 10 years.
I used three Gopros. Two with 20cm distance on the left side and a third with 100cm distance on the right side.
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 wrecks.
2021 we had another project week. Here are some wrecks and objects that we found
Artillery school ship Carl Zeiss
In Lithuania, close to the harbor of Klaipeda / Memel lies a huge wreck. The name of the wreck site was “W30”. It looked like it was not identified, or at least we didn’t find any further information. I managed to capture the whole 80m wreck in just one 65min dive. That was for sure quite a tough job. After inspecting the wreck and after compare of the remains with ships that sank in that area, it was clear that this would be the school ship CARL ZEISS. It sank during the second world war. It is such a beautiful wreck! Depth: 25m
Hisi 4K Camera
I wrote a survey report. about that wreck. You can fing it here: CarlZeiss
Fishing vessel
Close to the harbor of Klaipeda we found this small wreck. Looks like a fishing vessel. Not identified yet. Depth: 25m
Unknown object
Unknown object in the baltic sea. Our captain found a new wreck in June 2020. When we dived there we found this mysterious object. We have no idea what it was.
The wooden steering wheel of the steamer Elbing 9.
Year of construction: 1913 Sank: 1914 Cause: mine hit (World War 1) The Elbing 9 was on the way to rescue the shipwrecked man from the armored cruiser Friedrich Carl when it ran into a mine. Position: Lithuania – Baltic Sea Heritage Rescue Project
June 21st 2021 we found a new wreck. Cpt. Linas from the Baltic Sear Heritage Rescue Project saw it on his sonar scan of NZ55 while we were on the way back from an other wreck. We decided to dive there and look what we would find. Indeed there was a nice wooden wreck of around 32m length. It looks like the cargo was wood. It is still not identified.
Details
Dive: 55m deep & 30min bottom time Position: Baltic sea, Lithuania 3700 pictures from two Gopro7
