I had the honor to put Peter Lindberg and Dennis Åsberg some questions (same questions put to a Maritime archaeologist in National Geographic) which I feel will let us know a bit more about them as individual persons and also nice for them to not always just talk about the object in the Baltic. First out is Peter! (Dennis answers will come eventually, hes very busy atm.) Ok so here are the questions I asked and below you find Peters answers. 1. What did you want to be when you were growing up? 2. How did you get started in your field of work? 3. What inspires you to dedicate your life to diving/treasurehunting? 4. Whats a normal day like for you? 5. Do you have a hero? 6. What has been your favorite experience in the field? The most challenging? 7. What are your other passions? 8. What do you do in your free time? 9. If you could have people do one thing to help save the ocean, what would it be? PETER LINDBERG: 1) My dream when I was a child was to become a diver. I played on the kitchen floor with Lego wrecks and my sisters Barbie dolls became really handy when I imagined that my rubber finns were mini subs, the Barbies fitted precisely in the boots but they did not really like the pool water, or my sister did not like them to be in the swimming pool. 2) I was convinced that I was going to find the big treasure someday, but I understood I needed a lot of money to be able to carry through a treasure project. Therefore I came up with the great idea of becoming a commercial diver, I had heard they earned a lot of money and since I already was a scuba diver it would be an easy thing. So, when I was sacked from my work at the local factory I had the chance to be helped with an education. I choosed the Swedish navy diving trainee program. It was not easy for a civilian to get in but I succeeded regardless the hard physical tests, I have never been so motivated I think, and I performed way over my capacity. Never the less, the life as a commercial diver were not so rich after all... 3) Hard to say what keeps me continuing with what Im doing. I have no salary and Im out of the social security system more or less. I do not own anything special (house, expensive car etc), I have no money on the bank and my nearest probably wonder why I spend so much time with my research and out at sea since I never succeed with any projects. It is probably some kind of disorder in my brain. 4) I work very much from home, at my computer. Mailing, searching the internet, making maps etc but I also read a lot in old books. The time in the archives are surprisingly not that many hours per year. I also do some diving works now and then, like when it is time to pay the bills :) 5) No, I do not think I have a hero. I think though that all people who have tried to follow a dream are heroes. When I have a hard time with what Im doing, like when the waves are high, its cold and the wind screams in my ears, I think of those who have had it worse, those who just vanished when exploring, digging for gold or what ever. Those who perished all alone and far from home. When I think of those people my own ordeal does not feel so hard after all. 6) I think I have to say the lifting of the Jönköping wreck from 64 meters depth back in 1998. Not so many people has done it but we succeeded and it was a huge experience for me. 7) My other passions in life are car racing and beer, a man does not need anything else :) I would like to earn enough money so I could run my own amateur racing team... Sponsored by a beer company! Well of course Im also very passionated about all kind of history, I read solely only books with a historical content, fact or fiction 8) All of the above! 9) Think less of their profit and take care of their waste!
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 17:45:52 +0000
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