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Kees (“case”) Beemster Leverenz

I’m an diver and Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) instructor based in Seattle, Washington. I I teach from Eight Diving, a spacious and modern GUE facility which is located about 15 minutes south of downtown Seattle. I’m also happy to travel to teach on location upon request.

My goal is to impart the skills and experience I’ve learned over many years to my students. If you’re diving in warm water or cold, relaxing on a colorful reef dive, or exploring deep wrecks, I’ll give you the tools you need to enjoy the underwater world as much as I do.

About Me

I got my open water diver class as a birthday gift in 2009, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I was fortunate enough to meet GUE divers from the local community soon after becoming certified. Their generosity and infectious enthusiasm has helped me immensely through the years. Around the same time, I started working as a scientific diver both for the University of Washington and for a subcontractor for the local government. I participated in a number of projects: endeavors as exciting as developing tiny submarines and as tedious as counting individual blades of eelgrass.

Although I’m no longer counting grass, GUE has enabled me to continue my passion for project diving. Recently, I’ve been leading an effort to document the historic wrecks in Lake Washington in 3D and the Puget Sound. I’ve also contributed to many projects around the world. I’ve helped 3D map the warship Mars Makalös in Sweden, documented lost American warplanes in Croatia for Project Recover, and helped to explore vessels sunk during the Battle of the Convoys in the Mediterranean Sea in World War II with the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites (SDSS).

I provide recreational and technical diving instruction with GUE as well as consulting services for photogrammetry and diving projects. Please contact me to get things started.