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Akranes Ocean Diving Tour

Akranes Ocean Diving Tour

Ocean diving tour in West Iceland

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The town of Akranes is located about 40m from Reykjavik on the other side of the bay. This small town is not visited by a lot of tourists although it boasts a beautiful lighthouse and Guðlaug, a geothermal pool on the beach, that are both well worth a visit.

We will enter the ocean from a beach right by Akranes. The entrance is accessible and easy to enter and exit.

The North Atlantic ocean is full of Kelp forests which offer 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.

The pick up time of this tour depends on the tides. We usually want to end our dive around the peak of the high tide.

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 Garður, Bjarnagjá, Kleifarvatn, Davíðsgjá or Silfra that do not depend on the weather as much as the ocean.

  • Guided dive tour
  • 1 guided 40min dive in the Ocean
  • All necessary dive equipment
  • Hot chocolate and cookies in the dive break
  • your SCUBA dive certification card (PADI Open Water or equivalent)
  • proof of dry suit certification or 10 logged dry suit dives within two years of tour date
  • long underwear
  • thick socks
  • suitable clothes for the weather of the day
  • If you wear glasses, please bring contact lenses or your own prescription mask if you have one
Difficulty:
MODERATE
Duration:
2 hours and 30 minutes
Price From:
59.990 ISK

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