About me

Martin Splitt diving

Welcome to my dive blog! I’m a PADI Divemaster, dive nerd and I make dive tools, videos and photos.

Becoming a diver

It has always been a dream of mine to go and explore underwater worlds and when the opportunity presented itself, I got my open water diver certification in March 2019 on the Seychelles.

Martin Splitt as a freshly-certified OWD

As a next step, I learned how to dive in a dry suit, so I could explore the local lakes and other colder waters.

Martin Splitt diving in a dry suit in Germany

After trying out a dry suit dive with Robert and Chris from Tauchbasis Zwenkauer See, I took my dry suit course with Florian from TSK in Zurich in July. While I was at it, I also added the Nitrox certification with Roni there.

Then, in 2019, I began diving more actively. I took my advanced open water diver certification in January 2020 and then started diving regularly in cold water afterwards.

On my way to a dry suit dive

2021 I became a PADI Divemaster and began technical diving. 2022 I got my TDI Helitrox certification with Tom Steiner at plongee near Vevey and became a PADI instructor.

I collect dive photos and reports on this website, so have fun exploring with me :)

My dive gear

Backmount

  • 2x Apeks MTX-RC
  • XDeep Zen NX Wing
  • 12l or 15l mono steel tanks

Sidemount

  • 2x Apeks DST + XTX50
  • XDeep Stealth 2.0 Tec
  • 2x 12l steel or 2x 7l alu tanks

General gear

  • SFTech TNT Pro custom drysuit
  • Apeks RK3 fins
  • Cressi Big Eyes Evolution mask
  • Shearwater Perdix AI computer
  • TillyTec Maxi uni lamp with 4200-70000-10 LED head
  • Light & Motion Sola Dive S/F lamp

Camera gear

  • GoPro Hero7 Black camera
  • Sony alpha6600 in a Nauticam housing
  • 2x X-Adventure M8000 video lights