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Our Ambassadors

We are proud of our ambassadors. We are supported by a team of first-class ambassadors made up of marine biologist, deep divers, professional photographers, cave divers, etc, all of them good professionals, commited to the values and philosophy of DYNAMICNORD, and who are an example for many people.

The relationship we have with our ambassadors is very important for us. The relationship of mutual trust validates our work and helps us to improve every day, both personally and professionally.

We believe that an importat part of a brand’s personality is precisely its ambassadors.

Timo Dersch
Photographer, Germany

Nicole Kraß
Journalist and handicapped diver, Germany

Brigitte Leccia
Tech diver, France

Frank Vasseur
Cave diver, France

Evelyn Segura
Biologist, Spain

Lorenzo Bramanti
Scientist, Italy

Marc Casanovas
Underwater photographer, Spain

Anna Schmitt
PADI course director, Egypt

Ferran Sánchez
Underwater Photographer, Spain

Víctor Núñez
Underwater Photographer, Tenerife

Timo Dersch

Photographer, Germany

I have been passionate about water my whole life. I became a competitive freediver and scuba diving instructor at a young age and loved travelling and teaching during my university years. After my studies I became an editor at Europe’s largest Scuba Diving Magazine, TAUCHEN. My admiration for the work of the contributors led me into underwater photography, where I found a passion and a perfect way to combine my passions for diving, travelling and journalism. I then became a freelance underwater photographer working with magazines, advertising agencies, underwater video production teams and TV stations.

My photographs have won awards and have been published in many national and international magazines and newspapers. My work has appeared in National Geographic, GEO, Sport Diver, TAUCHEN, EZ Dive and many more.

I am fascinated by any entity of water. I love to explore pristine caves, reefs, rivers and lakes: “There is life in every body of water on our planet”, I always say, “this is what makes diving so fascinating to me”. I enjoy diving with my DYNAMICNORD equipment. “I am happy to have found a partner that produces gear that I can rely on, even for the most challenging dives and missions.

I am happy to have found a partner producing gear which I can rely on, even on the most challenging dives and missions.

The prestigious Dive Photo Guide magazine describes me as follows:

“Magazine editors often joke that they took a job in editorial because they didn’t have enough talent or couldn’t make enough money as a contributor. Well, that’s definitely not the case for this week’s Photographer of the Week, Timo Dersch, who – despite being a competitive freediver and diving instructor from an early age – had never dived with a camera when he joined Europe’s largest scuba diving magazine, Tauchen, after graduating from university. For Timo, it was his admiration for the images in the German magazine that led him into underwater photography and ultimately paved the way for a freelance career combining his passions for diving, travel and journalism.

As the photos in this feature show, Timo has indeed become an accomplished underwater photographer in his own right. As well as showcasing the creative and adventurous exploits of his fellow freedivers, this Hugyfot ambassador has captured some of the planet’s most thrilling underwater spectacles, from Iceland’s awe-inspiring Silfra Rift to the crystal clear lakes high in the Austrian Alps and the feeding frenzy of Southern Africa’s ‘sardine run’ – with plenty of great big animal portraits along the way.

Needless to say, next time you’re flicking through the latest issue of a prestigious publication such as National Geographic, Sport Diver or GEO, be sure to look out for Timo Dersch in the “Contributors” section, alongside the other talented journalists and photographers.

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I want to share what diving gives me.

Nicole Kraß

Journalist and handicapped diver, Germany

I got my diver certification back in 1995, but I was more of an occasional diver for many years. Two decades after my OWD, I had just rediscovered my passion for diving when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Right now, I can still do a lot of things, you hardly notice my disability. I don’t want to be restricted! What helps me a lot mentally is diving. When I glide weightlessly through the water, I feel light, weightless and at the same time courageous, alive and much more agile than on land.

Nevertheless, after the diagnosis, this question was still troubling me: What if, as the disease progresses, I need help and helpers to get in and out of the water and when I am actually diving? If so, I want to learn everything there is to know right now! When I was searching for diving opportunities for people with disabilities, I unfortunately discovered that there were hardly any to be found. That’s how the idea was born to fill this gap – with in-depth knowledge about diving with a handicap and inspiring stories about divers with disabilities. I started the blog “Diving with a handicap”, trained to become a diving guide for people with disabilities and am also supporting handicap diving in my regional diving club.

The experience I gain and the interviews I conduct show me that: With the right guidance, support and training, handicap diving can be a lot more than many people think – or know. But unfortunately there are still far too few providers! For me, it was a logical consequence to take my passion to a professional level. As a diving instructor, I want to share what diving gives me. Every dive center should have someone on their team who is dedicated to divers with disabilities and offers these people the chance to learn and practice our wonderful sport as well.

I still have a lot of plans and am continuing my mission to give diving with a handicap a boost. Being able to go down this path with an innovative, dynamic partner at my side makes me very proud. For me, DYNAMICNORD is a role model for diversity, and I am 100 percent committed to it as well.

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Brigitte Leccia

Tech diver, France

A nurse by profession, I have been diving since the age of 25.

After having passed several certifications, level 3 CMAS, and Dive Master, I found myself attracted to technical diving, so I became a certified diver with Nitrox. I then also certified in CCR (closed circuit rebreather), and I trained on four different machines: Apdiving with the Evolution, rEvo with the mini rEvo, and Innerspace with the Megalodon and the Pathfinder.

I have dived on five continents: Asia, America, Oceania, Africa, and Europe. I dream of diving the 6th continent, Antartica.

I was still eager for more, and I passed even more challenging exams: full trimix CCR and full cave CCR, and I certified in three different schools TDI, IANTD, NSS-CDS.

Being passionate about underwater photography, I also have a professional diver class 2B diploma, and I have published several articles in various diving magazines.

As a great nature lover, I am often in the water, be it for swimming, sports, water walks, or collecting sea urchins… If I am not in the water, I try to trek around the world.

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In 1984, he started caving and outdoor activities and learned to dive in 1987 to extend his underground exploration to its ultimate expression.

Frank Vasseur

Cave diver, France

I discovered nature and outdoor activities as a teenager through scouting.

I started caving and outdoor activities in 1984, and I learnt to scuba dive in 1987 to take my underground exploration to its ultimate expression.

Gradually, I acquired the knowledge, equipment and specific techniques to extend my field of intervention. Then, I have started sharing my skills by giving training as an instructor.

Today, I am an instructor trainer in cave diving, synthetic gas mixtures and closed circuit rebreathers. My explorations are based on the knowledge of this exceptional environment. In France, as well as during expeditions abroad, each discovery of new caves implies the retrieval of tangible elements to be shared (topographies, reports, photographs, films), so that a discovery can be enjoyed by others and not only by the privileged person who makes it.

After having worked as a lighting technician for others, the advent of digital technology has moved me to the other side of the lens. With an approach that is more empirical than technical, I focus on the pixels, photographing and creating video of places that have never been photographed before. My aim is to magnify, aestheticize and sublimate this environment, where ignorance can be catastrophic.

I work actively with local authorities, scientific organizations and cave owners to integrate speleological research into the management of natural areas and associated resources. I have made several discoveries about cave fauna.

I am the author of several books on underground diving and my technical manual has become a reference for several training organizations.

My skills are used to train certain constituted bodies in subterranean diving (Fire Brigade, National Police).

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Evelyn Segura

Biologist, Spain

My love for science in general and biology in particular grew over the years to become my passion. The truth is that I was a child with very diverse tastes. I loved writing, painting, and interpreting, and I had an enormous curiosity about everything around me. I found it very difficult to decide what to study when the time came. I chose biology because I felt it was the right place for me. The science of life.

Before I graduated in Biology, I had already started my relationship with the microphone. For seven years, I was part of the coordination team at a marine biology conference at the university and I gave my first lectures on marine conservation.

I worked for several years in different organizations as an environmental educator until I undertook one of my life projects. I decided to travel around our beautiful planet for more than a year. I went around the world, but in fact, the world went around my life.

Biologist by vocation and science communicator by nature. A marine lover, but an all-rounder in practice. Conservationist through the beauty of written, told and illustrated stories.

Protecting nature through consicious love.

During the following years I coordinated citizen science and environmental volunteering projects, advised in different conservation and communication projects, and created my YouTube channel, “Los mares de Evelyn”.

In 2015, by chance, I entered the world of television as a presenter on the popular science TV show “¡Qué animal!” on La 2 of Televisión Española. We are currently filming the seventh season.

Since 2018 I have been on the team at Aruser@s, the morning magazine TV show on LaSexta, where I share my knowledge and passion for natural wonders.

The stars of my weekly reports for España Directo on TVE’s La1 are wildlife from all over the country and the professionals who work to defend the conservation of such a valuable natural heritage.

I am passionate about telling nature’s hidden stories, whether on television, on the radio, at conferences, or in my book, “Adapt or Die, Nature’s Secrets to Survive in the Animal World”.

For me, what I tell is as important as how I tell it. What is said and how it is said go hand in hand. Protecting nature through conscious love.

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I have always lived next to the sea. I got on a boat for the first time at the age of 6 months, and I still haven’t got off. When my friends had motorbikes, I had a small zodiac.

Lorenzo Bramanti

Scientist, Italy

If I have to say something about why I do what I do, I can only say, I had no great vocation, mission, or call to protect our blue big brother… I have simply always lived next to the sea. I got on a boat for the first time at the age of 6 months, and I still haven’t got off. When my friends had motorbikes, I had a small zodiac.

In my family, on my father’s side I had my grandfather, who was a rebreather diver with the Italian Navy Seals. On my mother’s side they were all university professors. And my father dived and fished just like my aunt and uncle. I’m a scientist. I don’t seek enlightenment, I don’t have a mission. I am a “curiosus naturae”: I like to understand how things work and I can’t live far from the sea.

Since 2010 I have worked with the GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean) at the FAO on the management and conservation of Mediterranean red coral, and with the UNDP (United Nations Development Program) on the development of Marine Protected Areas in Djibouti (Africa). I also work as a scientific consultant with the Djibouti Port Authority in the assessment of shipwreck damage to the Djibouti coral reef.

I am a member of the scientific committee of the Marie Cerbere/Banyuls reserve and the LABEX CORAIL laboratory of excellence.

I have authored more than 80 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals, am a co-author of two books on corals, and co-editor of two SPRINGER books on marine animal forests.

My research has always focused on corals, from individuals (ecophysiology, life history traits) to populations (modelling of population and metapopulation dynamics), including functional ecology (role of coral forests), both in the Mediterranean and in the tropics, with the main objective of understanding population dynamics and predicting their changes under climate change and human disturbance scenarios.

In recent years, thanks to the French government’s authorization to use the rebreather for research diving, I have extended my interests to mesophotic coral ecosystems inhabiting between 50 and 150 meters depth. I participated in the DEEPHOPE expedition (French Polynesia) in 2019 with the Under the Pole association.

I am the organizer of the first workshop on mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Mediterranean, held in Banyuls sur Mer in July 2021. Further, I am the leader of the French fleet expedition for the exploration of mesophotic ecosystems in Cape Verde, to be held in 2022.

For the next 10 years I will be the scientific director of the DEEPLIFE Under the Pole (UTP) expedition, which will focus on mesophotic animal forests around the world.

I have been diving since I was a kid, becoming a PADI Instructor in 1996 and an SSI Instructor in 2007. I was certified as a Closed-Circuit Rebreather diver in 2010 and I am certified as an Advanced European Scientific Diver (AESD), AAUS diver (American Association for Underwater Science), and French professional diver (Class IIIB).

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Marc Casanovas Felix

Underwater photographer, Spain

I basically have been a photographer from my first day underwater, because after just a few dives I decided that the camera would be my constant companion and that I couldn’t imagine diving without it.

I dive all year round, in all conditions. My dives are long and challenging. That means I need diving equipment that is absolutely reliable and high-quality. I found what I was looking for at DYNAMICNORD.

My passion for the sea, especially the Mediterranean, has lasted for 27 years already.

I now dedicate myself professionally to underwater photography. In recent years, I have taken part in international nature photography competitions winning numerous of prizes: Spain (Montphoto, Memorial Maria Luisa), Germany (GDT), Great Britain (UPY), Italy (Asferico), France (Festival International de la Photo Animalière et de Nature Montier en Der), Russia (Golden Turtle), Israel (Worldshootout) and many more.

But what I enjoy most is looking at nature underwater, discovering new species I’ve never photographed before and observing new behaviors in the areas where I normally dive or discovering new destinations.

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Anna Schmitt

PADI course director, Egypt

I am Anna Schmitt, PADI course instructor and founder of the “Planet A” Diving Club. I am also an ecologist and marine conservationist.

The Red Sea has been my office for over 14 years, where I have taught around 1000 students to date – from beginners to professionals, passing on my experience and discovering and learning something new with each student.

One of my missions is to build a strong professional diving community with excellent teaching skills and attitudes worldwide. I am also focused on driving the development of quality instructor training in Egypt. For me, the quality that my instructor candidates impart to their students and the safety they provide is a priority.

One of my missions is to build a strong professional diving community with excellent teaching skills and attitudes worldwide.

Throughout my diving career, I have always been environmentally conscious. I care about the health of the Red Sea and regularly organize clean ups that many divers participate in to make a difference.

Last year we represented the Red Sea at the Global World Clean Up “7 Seas”. We collected more than 450 plastic bottles and over 200 kilos of marine debris in one 15-minute dive. It’s hard to make a difference on a global scale, but we can definitely make a difference in our local communities. What we do is not easy, but it is extremely important and rewarding. So never think that what you do is not enough – every little effort counts.

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As a passionate advocate of the underwater world, I seek to involve the viewer in the scene by sharing the richness of ecosystems and marine species through photography.

Ferran Sánchez

Underwater photographer, Spain

I started diving at the age of 23 and quickly immersed myself in underwater photography to capture the beauty of the seascapes I discovered on my dives around the world.

My talent was recognized from the outset, and I was invited to participate in underwater photography championships. Since then, I have continued to take part in national and international competitions, using the most advanced techniques in underwater photography.

I founded dondebucear.com in 2008, with the aim of publishing and sharing my work through the web and social networks.

I regularly collaborate with brands, diving centers, tourism agencies and international magazines to promote the best diving destinations.

My highlights the diversity of marine life through macro and super wide-angle photography, the latter being my specialty and often involving a model. In fact, I work with underwater model and biologist Cristina Molnar, forming an exceptional team that strives to create powerful images that make the viewer feel part of the scene.

As a passionate advocate of the underwater world, I enjoy spending as much time as possible underwater, sharing the richness of ecosystems and marine species through my photography.

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Víctor Núñez

Underwater photographer, Tenerife

I was born in Tenerife, Canary Islands. I have been passionate about the sea since childhood and started diving in 2009 and underwater photography in 2011, initially with a compact camera and now with a Nikon D850.

In 2012, I founded my website www.checkthesea.com, where I publish my pictures and describe, among other things, the different dives I have made in the Canary Islands. I have been interviewed several times by the press, radio and television, have organised exhibitions and won awards in national and international competitions, including the following:

Spanish Underwater and Canary Islands Photography Championship, Canarian Photo Awards, Color Adwards, USA, Cimasub, San Sebastian, United Nations World Oceans Day, USA, World Shootout, Germany, Festival Embarque to Treb, France and many more.

I have been passionate about the sea since childhood.

I have also participated as a judge in regional championships, collaborated with the Colombian magazine Catorce6 and the magazine Buceadores and written several doctoral theses on marine biology. A selection of my photographs is currently on display in the coastal areas of the municipality of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on my home island.

I am accompanied by Luchi González, an experienced diver. She is my underwater model and co-photographer. Together we make a great and successful team.

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