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Curriculum Vitae
Peter Kragh
pkragh@underseahunter.com
Date of Birth: May, 31, 1967
Place of Birth: Denmark
Prior to 1996: Danish military,
NATO Special Forces, rank Lieutenant
Experience at Sea-Locations:
OCT 96 - JAN 97: Dive Instructor
on Mystique, at the Grenadines, Caribbean.
APR 97 - SEP 97: Divemaster/Dive
Instructor on Okeanos, Cocos Island, Costa Rica.
OCT 97-SEP 01: Divemaster/Diving
Officer on Undersea Hunter fleet, Cocos Island , Costa Rica, Including
the following tasks:
JAN 98 to OCT 98:
Five months as dive guide for Howard Hall filming the IMAX film:
Island of the Sharks
DEC 98 - JUN 99: Expedition
with Undersea Hunter in the Pacific. Exploratory diving in Cook Islands
and French Polynesia
NOV 99: guide for NHK (Japanese
TV) filming an HDTV program about Cocos, filming for 5 weeks.
MAY/JUNE 00: independent
contract with the BBC, assisting Bob Cranston filming Cocos for the series
Blue Planet
JUN/JUL: six weeks
guiding & assisting Jeff Rotman shooting stills of baitballs in Cocos
SEP 00 - JUL 01: support
diver for Howard Hall, on the Undersea Hunter in Fiji, Vanuatu, Tuvalu,
French Polynesia, making of the IMAX film Coral Reef Adventures.
AUG 01 - SEP 01: Cocos Island,
Costa Rica.
Presently: Camera assistant
and dive assistant to Bob Cranston. Working as a Technical Diving
Instructor for TDI, and ANDI. I am an Instructor Trainer up to Rebreather
(Dolphin) level. I am a Rebreather (Inspiration) diver, 400 hours logged.
I am a Dolphin Service technician, certified by Draeger.
Language Proficiencies: Fluent
in Danish, English, Spanish, German
Professional Experience:
Director and
professional dive instructor for diving expeditions. In charge of planning
the course of the expedition at sea as well as at specific dive areas,
including the discovery and preliminary exploration of new sites.
In the past 4
years on the Undersea Hunter in Cocos Island Costa Rica, I worked as a
Cruise Director/Divemaster and Company Diving Officer. In this function
I gained extensive experience in planning and guiding long range, long
duration, boat-based dive and filming expeditions. Experience in handling
guests and teaching courses: Nitrox, Rebreather and Blending.
Some of
the projects I was in charge of while working as the Hunter Fleet Dive
Officer were: Designing installation and operating nitrox partial pressure
blending systems and pure oxygen generator system. Developing the
emergency and safety procedures for the Undersea Hunter Fleet, including
dive safety, oxygen safety and emergency in water oxygen recompression
procedures.
In addition to operating dive trips
in Cocos, the Undersea Hunter also did 2 long expeditions (one of 6 months
and one of 10 months) in other parts of the Pacific Ocean. During those
expeditions we visited Vanuatu, Tuvalu, Fiji, Cooks Islands and French
Polynesia. On these filming expeditions I managed and guided the film crews
and helped in choosing and scouting dive sites.
I have worked on two IMAX film projects
for Howard Hall (Island of the Sharks, Coral Reef Adventures) as camera
assistant and support/deep safety diver.
I have worked on television natural
history projects for BBC (Blue Planet), NHK, Mexican and Spanish national
TV, shooting Digital Beta Cam and High Definition.
I have worked on projects with Still
Photographers including, Howard Hall, Bob Cranston, Jeff Rotmann, Jeff
Foot, Brian Skerry, Burt Jones.
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