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Wilhelmshaven Ponton

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.

Picture from 1944. The size of the pontoon was minimum 17x50m. The red rectangle shows the position and size
The size of 4,7m would fit to the pressure hull of a VII Submarine
Source: Book: “Die Marine in Wilhelmshaven 1853 bis heute”

Submarine Type VII

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

Wilhelmshaven Old Jetty

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 can find the Jetties in the old picture

Wilhelmshaven IGLU

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

The Truck of Hemmoor

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

Christmas presents for the ‘Gezeitentaucher’

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

Wetnotes

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.

Car accident in Hemmoor!

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

Shark!

The shark of Hemmoor. You can download the model in the Download section.

Isn’t she beautiful!

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!

3d model of the dc3 airplane

Model of the DC3 Airplane at KAS / Turkey

Turkey – Kas

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

Weitendorf & Wreck X

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.