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Classes I teach:
Advanced Open Water Diver
Master Diver
GUE Fundamentals
Performance Diver
GUE Basic Fundamentals
GUE Technical Fundamentals
Doubles Primer
Drysuit Primer
Deep Primer
Navigation Primer
Rescue Primer
DPV Diver 1
Photogrammetry Diver
Gas Blender
Technical Diver 1
CCR Fundamentals

Kees Beemster Leverenz

Seattle, Washington, United States

(206) 331-0526
Kees@GUE.com
www.keesbl.com
www.sketchfab.com/kees.bl


Professional

  • Incident Communications and Coordination for Microsoft Office 365

Education

  • University of Washington, B.S. Earth and Space Sciences

Diving Qualifications

  • GUE Assistant Technical Program Director
  • GUE Instructor
  • GUE Tech 3
  • GUE Cave 2, Cave DPV, and Cave CCR

Diving Experience

  • More than 2,000 dives with hundreds of technical, cave, CCR, and DPV dives.

Community Involvement

  • Mars Makalös Exploration Project (Sweden) 2018 and 2019
  • Project Recover Documentation Expedition (Portugal, Croatia, and Italy) 2019
  • Red Sea Exploration Project (Egypt) 2019 and 2020
  • Ocean Discovery M/S Estonia Photogrammetry Project (Baltic Sea) 2022
  • SDSS Battle of the Convoys Documentation Project (Italy) 2022
  • SDSS DPAA Recovery Project (Italy) 2022
  • MPF Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) 2023
  • MPF Chuuk (Federated States of Micronesia) 2023-2024

Special interests

  • Underwater photography, videography, and photogrammetry

Publications

  • Contributor to GUE Photogrammetry Diver course
  • Contributor to GUE Navigation Primer course
  • Contributor to GUE Technical Diver 1 and Technical Diver 2 materials
  • Contributor to GUE Closed-Circuit Rebreather Fundamentals course
  • Quest volume 18.1 - An Introduction to Underwater Photogrammetry
  • Quest volume 18.4 - Staying Warm in the Cold
  • Quest volume 19.3 - Photogrammetry: Photography for Engineers
  • Quest volume 20.1 - The PBM Mariner Project
  • Quest volume 22.3 - If the Fins Fit, Wear 'Em!
  • GUE InDepth Blog - Adventures in Picture Making - Photogrammetry and Lighting
  • GUE InDepth Blog - The Life & Times of a West Coast Photogrammetrist: Could it be the Almirante Barroso?

Languages I teach classes in

  • English