kurt storms

I’m a 46 years old guy from Belgium. I work as a military in the airforce. I’m an underwater cave explorer, and active diving instructor for IANTD. My diving carreer started when I was around 32 years in Egypt on vacation with a Try-out dive. I immediately was so impressed by the underwater world that the passion never left. I joined a dive club in Belgium and that’s how the ball started rolling. I became an Instructor for IANTD, which is where I started my professional career, under the watchful eye of my mentor Erik Wouters. I became more interested in cave/mine diving and deep diving. When I’m not teaching new students, I’m always exploring new mines, especially in Belgium. Last year we discovered an old slatemine in Belgium called Laplet. This project was news on National TV. I am the founder and owner of Descent technical diving. I have also written some arcicles for several magazines such as: Plongez! - Wetnotes - Perfect diver – Hippocampe - Diver magazine US - scubadiver etc - OZ diver… I owe my passion for underwater photography to Vic Verlinden. It was thanks to him that I took the first steps towards photography. my greatest challenge is to pas on to people what I see with my eyes through the lens of my camera. I want to let people who don’t dive themselves, enjoy and admire the beauty in this world but from a distance. You can show people places they don’t know exist or introduce them places they can probably never see themselves.