Rogier Visser
About me
Rogier Visser, underwater cameraman. GUE CCR2 and CCR Cave certified, a PADI and SSI instructor, working to one hundred metres.
- Certification
- GUE CCR2 · CCR Cave
- Instructor
- PADI · SSI
- Max working depth
- 100 m
- Deepest dive
- 85 m
I film underwater. It started as a diver who happened to carry a camera and turned into the work itself: wrecks in Dutch inland water, flooded mine shafts in Germany, recovery operations at sea.
Certification and depth
I am GUE certified for CCR2 and CCR Cave, and an instructor with PADI and SSI. My maximum working depth is one hundred metres; the deepest dive I have actually made is85 m.
That distinction is not hedging. What you are qualified for and where you have been are two different things, and a client planning a production is entitled to both numbers.
Why rebreathers
A closed circuit produces no bubbles. That is not a luxury but the precondition for filming animals that would otherwise leave, and for working inside a mine shaft or a cave without shaking sediment off the ceiling with every exhale and destroying your own visibility.
That same equipment is the subject of my YouTube channel, where I take rebreathers apart and explain how they work.
What I do
As a cameraman I work to commission: shooting days, full productions, documentaries. I grade the footage — mine and other people's — and I produce podcasts. In my own time I document the Dutch dive sites I visit most often.