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Category: 2009 Scholar Journey

UW video in Bali

31 August, 2010 (12:46) | 2009 Scholar Journey | No comments

Sorry for giving all you readers the silent treatment – but I have been in Indonesia for 4 weeks now, with very limited internet access. Hope the pictures and the upcoming video make up for it.
Before Indonesia I had a short pit stop in Norway to repack my equipment and also test out some of [...]

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And Elba’s freediving

12 May, 2010 (11:09) | 2009 Scholar Journey | 1 comment

Time has came soon, too soon, though, to pack my bags and move on again. I was leaving Malta heavy-heartedly – I met there great and welcoming people, and spent some amazing moments. Thank you so much to everyone, who made it possible there.
My trip from Malta was headed to Italy, and my destination there [...]

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Malta deep diving

12 May, 2010 (11:09) | 2009 Scholar Journey | No comments

For the beginning of September I had planned an activity well in advance – and have been waiting for that impatiently. Finally, yet another plane (how many more times I‘ll be fighting over this heavy luggage at check-in?) took me to Luqa airport on Malta.
I have met Pamela and Karl Allmark way back in March, [...]

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The Discovery

12 May, 2010 (11:08) | 2009 Scholar Journey | No comments

After events in Aarhus, and staying over with Lars and his family for few nights, I traveled back to to Göteborg to do one last thing in Scandinavia – at least for a while! I stayed over again at Delia’s and Johan’s, and Johan has arranged for me to visit Poseidon Diving Systems. Sverker Palmbrad, [...]

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Many freedivers, and one Rolex Scholar in a pool …

12 May, 2010 (11:08) | 2009 Scholar Journey | No comments

This year, in Danish city Århus, there was held a joint world championship of AIDA and CMAS in freediving. Invited by Lars Kirkegaard, Scholarship’s coordinator for Scandinavia, to join the media team (for which he was responsible), as an underwater cameraman.
The competition site was a 50m long swimming pool in large sports complex, which was [...]

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Goodbye Norway, hello Oxygéne !

12 May, 2010 (11:07) | 2009 Scholar Journey | No comments

Next stop of my Scandinavian route was first off Norway – it lies just an hour north of Swedish Göteborg, in the city of Lysekil. That’s where first of the Oxygéne’s network dive centre was opened – Oxygéne Lysekil. Arriving late in the afternoon, past the closing time, in front of the dive centre I [...]

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