I am the resident diver at Quill & Pad, competent enough to test any self-proclaimed diver’s watch to its limits. Not only do I submit these watches to the same pressures divers experience but I also explore their history and accomplishments on the wrists of real aquanauts.

If you want to know whether your favorite watch is fit for the greatest adventure outside of space travel, join me on my way down.

I was born in Germany’s Niedersachsen and raised in the Air Force in Bavaria and Texas, where I joined the high-flying boys. But I eventually figured out that the empty skies don’t hold as many adventures as the depths of the seas.

In the early 1980s, I spent four years as a dive instructor and boat captain in the Caribbean before returning to Germany to study marine biology and – big mistake – journalism. The latter never let me go. Combining my two biggest interests, I started publishing diving magazines and still do.

Watches have been my everyday partners all my adult life, first in the sky and later at the bottom of the sea. First as lifesaving instruments and later as cherished companions.

Watches and I make an inseparable pair under water, on land, and, yes, still in the skies. Diver’s watches tell me their secrets, reliving their greatest adventures on the wrists of accomplished divers.

Follow my writings and I’ll introduce you to the finest in diver’s watches and the greatest adventures of humankind under water.