Description
This tour is booked on request, contact [email protected]
Join us on a Ocean dive in the North Atlantic and a fissure dive in salty and fresh water in Bjarnagja. This new private diving combo might just be for you if you would like to try something completely different.
Both dive sites are located in Reykjanes peninsula, about an hour drive from downtown Reykjavik.
The structure of your tour depends on the tides and weater conditions that day. Our experienced guides will decide which dive spot you will first dive at shortly before your dive date.
**Bjarnagjá fissure**
According to an older theory of continental drift, the Eurasian and North American continental plates shift and grind together in an endless clash of subterranean forces under a gaping rift at the tip of the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland. Bjarnagjá is an 18 m deep lava ravine on this very peninsula where the tectonic activity has caused Iceland to rise out of the ocean.
The water in Bjarnagjá is mostly fresh groundwater but it is influenced by the salinity of the sea as the rift is only few hundred meters from the coast. For those who have the appropriate level of training and diving experience this site offers dives in an overhead environment.
A boat has been placed at the bottom of the fissure, adding an eeriness to the dive spot.
**Ocean dive**
On the Ocean Diver Day Tour you will join the undersea inhabitants of the North Atlantic for a swim through Iceland’s cool coastal scene.
Our favorite local ocean dive site is Garður, which is a shore dive.
You will scuba dive in a kelp forest which offers a great habitat for a number of marine species, including lumpsuckers, nudibranches, and a wide variety of invertebrates. Colorful algae also flourish here off the coast of Iceland.
You will most likely notice pairs of eyes sticking out of the sandy patches of the ocean floor where the flounders live. Soft orange coral also intermittently decorates the sandy ocean floor. In the area of the kelp forests, a wolf fish might pay you an unexpected visit or stick its head out of a pile of rocks, looking a bit like a prehistoric creature.
Note that ocean dives in Iceland depend on the weather and it can happen that scheduled ocean dive trips have to be canceled due to unfortunate weather conditions.
If that is the case we usually have a plan B and can offer you other dive sites, such as Kleifarvatn, Davíðsgjá orSilfrathat do not depend on the weather as much as the ocean.
The structure of your Diving Tour
Our private tours include a private guide, pick up and transfer, the diving tour and all necessary equipment for diving.
The Private Diving Day Tour includes 2 dives which will take about 30-40 minutes each, with a maximum depth of 18 meters.
This tour is only available with pick up. Your private guide will pick you up in Reykjavík and drive you to the diving spot. During the drive, your guide will provide you with background information about the unique geology and cultural history of Iceland.
Your guide will give you a detailed briefing of each dive site and will then assist you in setting up our dive equipment. We use high quality BARE and Aqualung brand SCUBA equipment and APEX or Aqualung regulators.
After each tour, we will have hot coco and cookies.
After the second tour we drive back to Reykjavik. If you would like to soak in the Blue Lagoon after your tour, just ask your guide to drop you off there (you will have to book your own transportation back to Reykjavik from there).
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