May 2016
Review Of The BOMBERG Bolt 68 Quartz Chronograph The BOMBERG BOLT 68 is a slight departure from my normal reviews of automatic dive watches, although given the BOMBERG ‘in your face’ approach to design and ingenuity, I felt this is was a watch worthy of a review. BOMBERG BOMBERG burst onto the Swiss watch scene in 2012, first seeing the light of day in Neuchâtel which is the
Mar 2016
Magic Lantern RAW Underwater During a research expedition to film orca in Norway last November, I decided to get the most I could out of the video footage I was tasked to shoot. In order to achieve this and to maximise the quality and editing flexibility I opted to use the 5DmkIII Magic Lantern Firmware to shoot Uncompressed 14-bit RAW video underwater. The results were nothing short of incredible…
Feb 2016
>Linde Werdelin Oktopus Double Date Carbon - Green Review
Linde Werdelin Oktopus Double Date Carbon – Green Review Jacques de Vos is qualified as a Commercial Diver, Recreational SCUBA Instructor and Freediving Instructor Trainer and works as a full time Professional Underwater Photographer & Cameraman. Review Criteria Reviews for dive watches are carried out in my capacity as a diver where every dive watch is worn on a daily basis for a minimum of 10 days and put
Review Of The Beco Boxy Fancy Brick Watch Winder What Is A Watch Winder? Automatic (or self-winding) watches operate by winding themselves using the natural movement of the wearer which in turn rotates or swings a weight inside the watch and this turns the winding mechanism of the watch. If the watch is not worn for an extended period of time, the watch no longer receives the movement it needs
Dec 2015
Oris Force Recon GMT Review
Review Of The ORIS Force Recon GMT Jacques de Vos is qualified as a Commercial Diver, Recreational SCUBA Instructor and Freediving Instructor Trainer and works as a full time Professional Underwater Photographer & Cameraman. Review Criteria Reviews for dive watches are carried out in my capacity as a diver where every dive watch is worn on a daily basis for a minimum of 10 days and put through its
Jul 2015
Photography & Video For Schöfferhofer Weizen Two months ago I was approached by a media agency to shoot the stills and video for the new Schöfferhofer Weizen campaign featuring record German freediver and ORIS ambassador Anna von Boetticher. Schöfferhofer is a German brewery and they chose to use Anna as the face of their #PRICKELND campaign and it is great to see the sport of freediving getting more
All featured images taken with Ikelite housings and products. Open spaces How many times have you been in awe of a beautiful landscape image with anything from rolling grassy hills, snow-capped mountain peaks or just a very well composed still of a salt plain with an infinite horizon? What makes these images so special and why is it that even without a definite tangible object as a subject these images
Feb 2015
What is the difference between a dive watch and a dive computer?
As a child I was obsessed with anything related to the ocean, especially if it was underwater and long before I started diving I had seen enough James Bond movies featuring Rolex, Breitling and Omega dive timepiece, as well as ads for beautiful analogue dive watches in magazines and newspapers to ‘know’ that if you were going to be a real diver you needed a fancy analogue dive watch to