Diving Silfra In Winter

This beautifully clear water comes from the second largest glacier in iceland langjoekull. I highly recommend it especially to those readers who absolutely love booking more adventurous excursions. Snorkeling in silfra in winter is one of my most memorable travel experiences.

At the silfra meeting point your guide will give you a detailed briefing of the dive site and will then assist you in setting up our dive equipment.

Diving silfra in winter. Life in silfra although thingvellir lake has an abundance of fish species and trout fishing is very popular in the lake the fish usually do not venture far into the silfra fissure. What makes silfra unique. Keep in mind everyones experience snorkeling in silfra is different. Sure it was cold but that is no problem because this.

If you dont have a padi licence you can check out our snorkeling tourshere. Silfra snorkel in iceland at one of the top dive sites in the world situated in thingvellir national park only about 50 kilometres from reykjavik. We went snorkeling at silfra on jan. Silfra fissure exists due to the north american and eurasian tectonic plates separating around 2 centimetres a year leaving a rift in the landscape between them.

Iceland at its best. The silfra fissure is located in the heart of thingvellir exactly at the point where the two tectonic plates meet. Snorkelling in the silfra in winter. If you are diving the maximum allowed depth of your dive in silfra will be 18 meters and the average depth of the dive is between 7 and 12 meters.

Icelands padi 5 star dive center offers a variety of diving snorkeling tours in iceland. Its water is 1000 year old melted glacier water. The clarity of the water in silfra is what attracts thousands of visitors every year. Silfra is located in thingvellir national park which is a unesco world heritage site.

Yes you can go snorkeling in silfra in the winter. Silfra is the only place in the world where you can go snorkeling between two continents. Our guide louie was fabulous taking very good care of. The structure of your diving tour the silfra diving tour includes one dive which will take about 30 40 minutes with a maximum depth of 18 meters.

People may think youre crazy but it will be the best decision of your trip. Daily snorkeling tours to silfra with diveis icelands 5 star padi dive center. We use high quality bare and aqualung brand scuba equipment and apex or aqualung regulators. Scuba dive or snorkel silfra or other dive tours in iceland.

So beautiful raw nature meditative and calm. Go diving at some of the most beautiful places in iceland for example silfra fissure at thingvellir national park and in north iceland. Snorkelling in silfra earths clearest water between two continents.