All posts by Holger Buss

Wooden wreck

My first model of an entire wreck site.

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


Compass housing

I started capturing bigger objects. Here we have the compass (housing) of the steamer Edith Bosselmann. It is made from wood. The ship sunk in 1942

Model: 1056 pictures from two Gopro 7

The first model: The bell of ELBING IX

The steamer ELBING IX sank in the First World War in 1913. It ran into a mine near Klaipeda (formerly Memel) when it was on its way to rescue the castaways of the warship FRIEDRICH CARL.

The bell was found by the BSHRP in 2018. It’s on the wooden deck.
In 2019 I was able to take pictures of the bell, which I was able to convert into a 3D model with the help of Robert Szymaniuk.

Fair BOOT 2020

At BOOT 2020 we presented the model of the bell at the booth of the Baltic Sea Heritage Rescue Project and every day we printed a bell.