In 1979 Carsten actually began flying and in the age of 14 he drove a plane for the first time.
The picture shows a sailplane of the LVU (Luftfahrt Verein Unterweser) Typ "Clubastir" after landing in front of the parent's home.

(ca. 1985)

The C.S.S. Cree, the first own motorboat. Bought as crap, repaired and rebuilt. A fast boat but not useable for rough sea trips.

(ca. 1985)

The 'Diogenes I', a project of André and Stefan. The boat was pulled by a motor boat and is built from a droptank of an old MIG Jet!

The first seagoing boat. The C.S.S. Komet, the protoype of a measurement barge, was built as an empty hull and rebuilt. The landtransport was done by lorry and the boat was used for wreckdiving in the north and baltic sea. The 225PS V8 gasoline engine made driving be extremely uneconomically and reduced the range dramatically.

(ca. 1993-1998)

C.S.S. Rock'n - a runabout in word's meaning! The boat with 130PS nearly cutted off two divers heads. A defect at the fuel tank or it's supply leaded to an explosion in the harbour of Burg on Fehmarn a short time before leave.

HANDS OFF BOATS WITH GASOLINE ENGINES!

(ca. 1998-2000)

C.S.S. Seawalker - was the prototype of an AUV (autonom underwater vehicle). It worked well, but the problem with all those underwater vehicles is the lack of intelligence of the boardcomputer. They like hanging round in old nets...
The project was done by Norbert Brüggen (build) und Carsten (design).

(ca. 2000)

C.S.S. Sgt. Pepper's - was Carstens first manned submarine and can be found since 1989 in guinness book of world records. It's for one person, who drives the vehicle in lying position. The submarine can nowadays be visited on summer weekends at car museum in Asendorf (near the B6). Since ca. 1988 and with breaks until 1999 often used it also works nowadays.

If you're interested in more information, follow the picture links that can be found in Euro-U-Boats...

2006 and 2007 we used the C.S.S."Partisan" for wreck research in North- and Baltic Sea. A fast boat with diesel engine and long range. Unfortunatly the hull gots cracks during a heavy storm trial. After some repairs it was sold.

Emile and Carsten allways update the Sgt.Peppers Oneman-submarine to state of the art technology. In January 2008 it gots a new Side Scan sonar, echosounder and seamap-plotter and also two new thrusters. The air compensationg system for the batterys and the thrusters was devided in two seperate systems.

Sgt.Peppers 16.Febuary 2008 in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany in front of the wet pressure chamber short before the 210 Meter deep pressure test.

The chamber with an inside water pressure of 21 bar (equal to 700 feet water deep). The midget submarine ist inside and complete underwater. To prevent free swimming it is secured with ropes.

After the test - boats inspection of all parts for damage.

(from left to right:) next day, Andre from Euronaut project, Emile from Sgt.Peppers, Euronaut and Drebbel project and Reinhard from Nemo I, Nenmo II and Wet-pressure-psub-dockchamber project awaitung at -7 Celsius that Carsten finish the manned 100 meter pressure test.

Carsten behind the 100 Meter dive in the chamber. The sub was move in the chamber abozut 3 feet forward/aft or 2 feet up and down. The procedere of closing the chamber with bolts, flooding with water, pressurize, dive and test the boat, removing the water and unbolting the chamber takes about 1.5 to 2.0 hours.