Deep wrecks, caves or flooded mines — which kind of diving stays with you the most?
Spent the last few years filming a 90-minute underwater docu called Hidden Worlds — mostly deep wrecks, flooded mines, caves, and other underwater “lost places” across Europe and the Red Sea.
What really stayed with me wasn’t just the places themselves, but how different they feel from normal diving. Some wrecks feel like history frozen in place. Caves can feel almost like a spacewalk. Mines are probably the strangest of all — beautiful, but also unsettling, because you’re constantly aware that they were built by people and then abandoned.
A lot of the final images look calm, but getting them usually wasn’t. Long travel, a lot of gear, changing visibility, current, depth, long deco, and the constant balance between focusing on the shot and not letting the dive take second place.
Curious for the people here who are into wrecks / caves / mines / deeper diving:
Which environment gets under your skin the most — and why?
If anyone’s interested, I’m also happy to share more about the filming side or the places in the film.