Stef Panis is a professional underwater photographer, specialized in shipwreck, cave and mine photography

Stefan started diving at the age of 6 through his father. In 1992 he did his first “official” course. Since than he moved on doing courses like nitrox and trimix, and he started diving an Inspiration rebreather in 2009, and Started photographing in 2013.

Meanwhile he developed a great interest in wrecks and researching the history of the wrecks and mines in the archives.

He did many dives on wrecks in the north sea, the English channel, and abroad in Sardinia, Portugal and Lithuania just to name a few. He was involved in different successful expeditions searching for new wrecks, like the identification of the 1852 “Josephine Willis”.

In 2014 he also obtained his full cave ccr certificate, and he also loves to dive, explore and document the many old mine sites in Belgium.

Stefan writes articles for several international (Tec) diving magazines, and wrote 4 books.

In 2020, Stefan became member of the Explorers Club in New York.

In addition to his photography work, Stef is also currently working on documenting the many shipwrecks in the Dover Straits, UK for a forthcoming book to be published by Whittles Publishing.