A friend of mine offered me the great opportunity to join him, his brother and some more friends for a three week off road trip into the western peripheral area of the Sahara in southern Tunisia. There was no real need to ponder hard about it… So Team Viltovergang was revived for another thrilling trip!
Right on my check in dive in Soma Bay at Marsa Alam (Red Sea) we encountered a superfly turtle. It was reaaally curious and fearless and gave the dive guide a highfive and swam away cool as an ice bear’s butt. So here’s the short vid:
Here are the highlights of my one week trip with the Seven Seas to the Brother islands, Elphinstone Reef and Daedalus Reef. It was a joyful voyage, a great time with nice and friendly people and thrilling and fascinating wildlife encounters!
This year I decided not to spent Xmas in cold, snowy and cloudy Germany, but to head to a tropic destination. So I picked Ellaidhoo in the Ari Atoll as the house reef there was described to be a good spot for large fish and there a was a properly kept diving base. Hearing of my plans my kindergarten fella Read More ...
Two of my best buddies and I grabbed our cameras and strolled through our city on the hunt for its stunning and awesome sights.This was great fun and maybe we captured a fistful of nice images.We were held for tourists and speed trapping cops (yet alone being held for a cop is a serious insult, if you are familiar with Read More …
Long time, no blogging, I just wanted to show up with a little life sign.So here are two drone vids I did for work, as we needed legal, licence secure fake advertisement video footage for a demo. Therefore the cheesy texts at the end…So here we go:The first one is taken around my home – the first two parts – Read More …
Recently I had do design a custom made WiFi Login Page of our company, after deploying a clean styled design it still looked ugly on android phones and tablets. The design was properly displayed, but it was not fitted nice and cozy to the display size. The key to the problem is the zoom factor of the viewers device. <meta Read More …
After my last adventure with a drone – in which I miserably failed – I decided to start another approach, so I got me a DJI Mavic Pro drone.Until now it is great fun to fly it, it is easy, I did not crash it yet and the camera seems to do a good job. But have a look for Read More …
Wrecks are fascinating, from a biological point of view, as nature occupies relentlessly the new territory and from an emotional perspective wrecks emanate a dark fascination as all wrecks have a history and often a gruesome one.As everything interesting of course Hilma has a history and luckily it is not a very dark one – more kind of a green Read More …
On my last visit in Soma Bay a dinner conversation sparked a new idea. Even though it might be boring to talk about diving when you have been doing exactly that the whole day, this talk was interesting and inspiring. The gentleman probably had me and my dive buddy at “dive-drive-through”. Simply picking up tanks, drive to one of the Read More …
As a James Bond fan since kids ages I was absolutely excited to hear that my next live aboard vessel was a former 007 movie location of The man with the golden gun. The Junk was the cruising gadget of the villain Scaramanga played by Christoper Lee. We were picked up in Phuket,Thailand, in Patong bay going for a cruise in the Andaman Sea, covering the Similan Islands, Tachai Island and Mu Ko Surin underwater National Park. Read More …
During a morning dive we stumbled over two leopard sharks deeply engaged in their flirtation.
The male shark had snapped the tail fin of his loved one – I am sure he did that as tender as he could! Read More …
After exploring the Sultanate of Oman on four wheels, the idea of discovering another country by the same way quickly arose and the destination was picked fast, too: Laos! We decided to do the tour with a guide, which later on showed as a good move as it really enriched our Lao experience. Mostly due to Phay, the man who Read More …
All Sharks are in danger.
Please do boycott shark fin soup in restaurants and all other fish products that include sharks. Read More …
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