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09/1993
PADI Open Water and Advanced Course
Phi Phi Family Diving
Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
08/1994
Dive short trip
Undersea Adventures
St. Ives, Cornwall/UK
04/1996
Rescue Diver, Medic First Aid (MFA) and Divemaster Course
Fantasea Dive Club
Dahab, Sinai/Egypt
04-09/96
Working as Divemaster
Fantasea Dive Club
Dahab, Sinai/Egypt
27.08.1996
Dive No. 100
Dahab, Sinai/Egypt
10/1997
Dive short trip
Bali Coral Dive Center
Tulamben, Bali
02/98-04/99
Several dive short trips
and boat dives
Dahab Divers Lodge
Dahab + Sharm el Sheikh, Sinai/Egypt
10/1999
Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) and Nitrox (EAN) Diver
Fantasea Dive Club
Dahab, Sinai/Egypt
11/99-04/01
Working as Dive Instructor
Kon-Tiki (today iQ-DIVE)
Khao Lak, Thailand
07/2000
Dive short trip
Pro Dive Cairns
Cairns, Qld./Australia
21.12.2000
Dive No. 500
Similan Islands, Thailand
04/2001
Liveaboard trip on the
Chinese Junk/Phuket
Similan, Surin Islands + Richelieu Rock
05/01-06/03
Working as Base Leader
Tauch Terminal Tulamben
Tulamben, Bali
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My "dive career" began in 1993 during a backpacking trip through Southeast Asia and should
later on lead me and my beloved sweetheart Steffi and temporary
UW assistant
through numerous exciting countries with many different and fascinating
dive areas.
A ten year lasting journey begins...
Open Water Course
Koh Pih Pih, Thailand
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The first dives during my Open Water Course in Koh Phi Phi/Thailand were exciting but
basically "just" nice and colourful.
In the following 250 dives I got introduced into the beauties of the
Red Sea with its great reefs and amazing numbers of endemic species.
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The two following working seasons in
Khao Lak/Thailand appeared to me like a revelation.
There were so many new things to discover, it was just amazing.
I could hardly keep looking up all the "new" species which I have of course not noticed
during my Open Water Course years before.
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Work break...
Similan Islands, Thailand
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Chris & Willy
Junior OW Course
Tauch Terminal Tulamben
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But apparently everything is increasable:
Bali/
Indonesia turned out to be a capital for nudibranchs and a real
"City of Ghostpipefish".
Nowhere else I've seen a greater variety of species underwater as in Tulamben (except
maybe at
Nusa Kode/Komodo). And I guess nowhere else
are more
ghostpipefishes - once even 7(!) in a single dive.
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After meanwhile more than 1.600 dives, always with a magnifying glass in my pocket, numerous
UW Photos have been accumulated in my underwater photo archive.
Some of them have even been published in the new book
Nudibranchs of the World,
(published 10/2007) by Helmut Debelius and Rudie H. Kuiter (therein some rare species and a few new records for Indonesia!).
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Chris, Komang Agus &
'Price Winner' Brandon Lee
Tauch Terminal Tulamben
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Unfortunately I could never find the right time to work on an own website so far.
However, now it's done and I hope I can continue developing this site in the near future. ;-) [To-date 10/2006]
After 4 years working as a Technical Writer, during which time I have constructed this website amongst others, I have never been
away from the diving completely. I rather know the dive business for about 20 years and I am looking forward now to benefit from
my dive biz expertise and my comprehensive knowledge about southeast asia and the countries as a whole in order to boost my new project.
Welcome to...
Dive & Dream Tauchreisen GmbH ...nur atmen müssen Sie selbst!
(...you just need to breath!)
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"Leave nothing behind but bubbles, take nothing but impressions.
Or photographs... :-)"
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* Click thumbnails
to enlarge.
08/2001
Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT), Specialty Instructor (5 Specialties incl. Nitrox + UW Photographer)
Tauch Terminal Tulamben
Tulamben, Bali
11/2001
Liveaboard trip on the
SY Adelaar from Bali to Flores/Komodo N.P.
21.12.2001
Dive No. 1.000
Tulamben, Bali
10/2002
MFA Instructor
Tauch Terminal Tulamben
Tulamben, Bali
02/2003
Dive short trip
Prince John Diveresort
Donggala, Sulawesi
06/2003
Dive No. 1.539
(last dive in Bali) and
return to Germany
08/2003
Freezing cold dives ;-(
Möhnesee, Germany
11/2006
Dive short trip
Lagona Divers/Tropitel
Dahab, Sinai/Egypt
09/2007
Dive short trip
Sea Explorers, Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort
Dauin, Negros Oriental/Philippines
10-11/2009
Hotel and Liveaboard inspection trip for my new project
Dive & Dream Tauchreisen GmbH
Bali, Lombok and Sulawesi/Indonesia
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