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Hi there! Being new to the mailing list, I'd like to give a brief presentation of = myself. I'm 33 years of age married with two small kids. I started scuba diving i= n = 1980. Sinze then, I have made 1600+ dives. The last seven years I've be= en = living (and diving) in Stavanger. Stavanger is situated on the southwest = coast of Norway, has a population of about 100 000, and is the "oil capit= al" = of Norway. I live on an island outside the city only 30 metres from the shore. From = september to april I make one nightdive each week outside my backdoor, = photographing the marine life. In 1984-85 i worked as a "minediver" in the Royal Norwegian Navy. I was = aducated on Drager FGT-1D rebreather, Kirby Morgen equipment and deep air= = diving on scuba, Our main task was to demolish explosives, mostly old st= uff = from the 2. world war. Nowadays I work as an engineer in the oilindustry. Working with = modifications on existing oilrigs, make me work both on- and offshore. In my sparetime I dive, photographe and write artichles on diving. I hav= e 80-100 dives per year (30-40 tech dives including 2-6 Trimix dives per = year). Last summer I joined The Norwegian Technincal Diving Society as a = photographer on their project in Lake Tinnsj=F8. Recovering the bell from= DS = Tinn resting on 102 metres in dark cold freshwater. On our first dive we = managed both to take pictures of the ship/bell, and to bring the bell to = the = surface. Allthough marine biology is my main interest, I do a lot of wreck diving.= = Searching for virgin wrecks is both interesting and exiting. To find some= of = the more exiting wrecks in the Stavanger area we go off the Jaeren coast,= = which has several hundred wrecks from WW2 and earlier/later times, at dep= ths = ranging from 35msw to 70msw. Many of these wrecks has still not been visi= ted = by divers. Diving there is however often very difficult due to heavy currents and swell. Our next project is to search for deep water sceractinian corals (Lopheli= a = pertusa) in one of the norwegian fjords. Littel known is that Norway has = more than 130 located coral reefs (built by lophelia corals). Most of thi= s = reefs are found on the continental shelf and shelf edges between 200 and = 400 = m. in tempratures between 4 and 8 degrees celsius. However in one fjord, = unique marine conditions has made one reef grow at only 60 msw. Heavy = currents, cold water and rough weather has protected these corals from = divers, and they have only been photographed by ROV's. We will allso search for other types of free growing deep water corals li= ke = Paragorgia aborea, Paramuricea placomus and Primroe resedaefermis. We have to drive more than 1000 km's to get to the divesite and are going= to = have 8 days of diving. The plan is to do 2 dives each day on depths from 30 to 65 metres. The di= ves = will be done on air, but we will bring EAN80 as decomix. We plan to take = one = day off to "degass". I have very little experience with this kind of = repeatedly diving and hope to get some advices from you people out there.= = Proplanner is going to be used to plan the dives. Rudolf -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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