| Kongsfjord and Berlevåg |
Kongsfjord
and Berlevåg – scuba diving under the Northern LightsThis trip takes you 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle, to water that is as clear as air, as blue as sapphire, and that puts tropical visibility to shame. Most of the dive sites, outstanding wrecks and natural reefs, no-one, except us, will have dived before.
Go explore, yet enjoying comfortable accommodation and home cooked food lovingly prepared using fresh local ingredients.
Here at 70º 52‘ you are further North than the Northern coast of Alaska, yet thanks to the Gulf Stream, the Arctic Ocean (the Barents Sea) does not freeze here and scuba diving is possible all year round. In summer the sun never sets and you can dive 24 hours a day. In winter the Northern Lights send veils of iridescent colours across the starry sky, visibility under water is 50 metres and more, and the ocean floor stretches out before your eyes with its valleys, hills and mountains – endlessly – that is when you understand that this world under water really is bigger than the world above water.
To
compensate for the cold water, life is bigger and brighter than in temperate
or tropical waters – like the giant King Crabs (or Kamchatka Crabs), the
biggest measure 2 m from claw to claw. As you fly through the kelp forest, across wrecks and reefs you are joined by thousands of silvery fish – anything from enormous cod and haddock, or caipelin and tiny sardines to fierce looking wolffish - the only fish that has teeth strong enough to attack an adult King Crab.
A
hardboat especially equipped for scuba diving and deep sea fishing takes you
to the dive sites in comfort and in style.The great hospitality fits the awesome Arctic surroundings: it is not just nature that is unspoilt by tourism – the people here are unspoilt too.
You notice it in the tiny details, like the hand knitted woollen socks provided to guests in Kongsfjord Gjestehus, the fresh meadow flowers on the table (during the arctic summer), and a certain sparkle in people’s eyes when they talk about their native place.
Kongsfjord
is special in more than one way: unlike virtually any other town or city in
Norway it was not destroyed during the second world war – there are plenty
of old houses – like bright specs of colour dotted all along the fjord. 
Narvik
- A wreck diver`s heaven.
Try
imagine your perfect wreck dive: from the surface you can just about make
out the shadow of a wreck. Drawn by that mysterious shadow you find a ship
sitting upright in blue water, complete with masts, guns, derricks, winches,
numerous artifacts telling a vivid story of life onboard and of how she came
to grief. This is wreck diving in Narvik. Thanks to the fairly sheltered
location and a strict no touch policy the famous wrecks of Narvik are
perfectly preserved. Having spent 65 years on the seabed they are also very
fragile held together rather precariously by the rich life that grows on
them.
You
need not be afraid of the cold: most of your dive sites are only a short
boat ride away and every night you come back to a warm and dry place: your
own cosy cottage at Narvik camp site overlooking the fjord and the mountains
behind. There is enough space and efficient heating to make sure you start
off warm and dry for the next day’s adventures.
Diving
underneath the sea ice - gliding past strange translucent shapes
shimmering purply blue, turquoise and green - is an experience out of
this world, beyond words. 
If
you have never dived under the ice, the experience will be emotional,
almost overwhelming. If you have dived under the ice in a lake or quarry
you will be amazed about the difference between freshwater and seawater
ice. 
You get
to your dive site by snow mobile, an ice camp is set up with lodges
offering heated accommodation to relax and have lunch. Sometimes, in
addition, a heated tent is set up above the hole so that you descend
from warm surroundings. In summer, you get to your dive site by RIB (5
min to max. 60 min). Equipment is rinsed in fresh water and stored in a
dedicated store by the pier.
Out
of the water, many more adventures are there waiting for you: go skiing
or by snowmobile, or visit a traditional Russian village with its
beautifully carved wooden houses. You can go fishing in the sea, in a
nearby river or lake, and have dinner, later on, by an open fire in the
taiga. 
Tysfjord
– scuba diving with the killer whales, and some awesome wall dives
Here
you can see them from the windows of your log cabin overlooking the fjord.
It is only once you are in the water with the orcas that you can appreciate
their unique beauty: animals that look as big as a mountain yet they are as
swift as a seagull. 
wolffish,
lumpsuckers, frogfish, angler fish, strange nascents of the deep look back
at you – they have never seen a diver before. Apart by us, most of the dive
sites here have never been dived before.
