Finally in Egypt! I've been looking forward to visiting the Blue Hole in Egypt for a long time, and it was fantastic to dive in warm, deep, clear water! (It's difficult to find spots deeper than 15 meters in Denmark without a boat!)
This was my first time training Free Imersion and Constant Weight. We trained with Freedive Dahab. Linda was a great instructor, and gave me useful feed-back. My deepest dive was 36 meters, which I am quite satisfied with. It's awesome hanging at the end of the line, feeling the depth!
Stig was training for a new Guinness world record and invited me to join him at Kattegatcentret for a training session with sharks. Here we freedived with a bunch of different shark species including sandbar sharks, nurse sharks, black tip and white tip reef sharks. It was a thrilling experience to dive with sharks. They were very calm and curious. Some of them swam close to us and one even brushed me with its fins!
This cool winter has frozen the lakes and provided us with the opportunity to go below ice. Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new Guinness world record in diving under ice. He swam 72 meters wearing only goggles and trunks! Brr... Watch it here.
Freedivers from Aarhus Freediving Club enjoyed relocating training to a cool environment. A great opportunity for training dynamic with a "roof" over our heads. More to come...
A cold winter has been upon us for some time now, so after battling and toiling webpages, blogs and galleries the sun drove Stig and I out for a quick dive. The sun shone comforting and invitingly through the window today, but at the same time made Stig's office stuffy and excruciating - we simply had to take a dive! I used the opportunity to make a personal appearance and welcome you all to my Blog.
Simon and I decided to try out the northern pier of Århus harbour. We soon found that summer temperatures have subsided. The sea being 9° C! Brr... We only spotted small cod, but during the dive I noticed this "flower" which I had to photograph. It looks like a Metridium senile, a common species in the Northern seas.
Having recently shot a mullet, I was eager to have another go at mullet hunting. Simon from AFK and I set out Friday morning, and were in the water 10:15 at Grenå.
We first headed out towards the pier, but the pier construction at the site clouded the water. But did have a shot at a pollock swimming by and spotted several cod.
However, soon turned back and swam towards the mullet site picking out the odd flounder on my way. On arrival it soon became clear that mullets were around. When hunting mullets between ½ - 2 meters water, I pick up at stone to make me heavy and move extremely slowly along the bottom. After having spotted mullets I soon got lucky and came across a mullet gnawing algae off the stones. I hit it right behind the head and a chase and fight ensued, as you can see on the video. I try to make the kill as quickly as possible. You may notice me grabbing my knife from my left arm and killing the fish by sticking the knife through its brain after having a steady grip on the fish. The mullet was 60 cm and 2.8 kg and put up a bit of a struggle.
Several have asked how I mount my digital camera on my speargun. I'm actually a bit embarressed, cause I have not designed an elaborate mounting device, but simply used ready available items.
For the camera mounting device I use a mini-tripod with flexible legs, three pieces of bicycle tube and cable strips. The pieces of bicycle tube are cut to fit the length of the tripod legs. These serve to avoid the tripod legs from moving. I have an Omer Cayman speargun and the legs of the tripod fit around the handle of the speargun. The feet of the tripod legs are then held together with strips.
I am quite fond of this arrangement, because the flexible tripod legs make it easy to move the camera to fit the angle from which to shot the videos. However, when a shot is released the camera may move.
Dear Reader, With this Blog I hope to share some of the experiences I have below the surface and show some of the fascinating life that inhabits freshwater and marine environments.
Since I started scuba diving in 1991, the aquatic world has become my favorite playground. I acquired my first spearfishing gear in 1995 and in 2008 started training freediving in Århus Freediving Club.
