Hi and ho!
This weekend me and my buddies decided to go to one of the diving spots that are closer to home than the others, the marina of Kullavik, a bit south of Gothenburg. This was due to various circumstances that made us prefer a site close by instead of our regular haunts further away in Gullmar fjord. The weather was nice, with little to no clouds and wind. We thus decided on pairs, made dive plans and kitted up.
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| Red fingered coryphella (Coryphella verrucosa), a rather common species with two distinct forms. |
Dive 1:
Depth: 6 m. Time 1h 18 min. Temp: 7 °C.
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Eelgrass anemones (Sagartiogeton viduatus)
can sit on other things than eelgrass |
Me and my buddy, both of us photographers, decided to follow the crags and boulders closer to land as they are good places to observe nudibranches that likes to live in the algae that grows there. After getting into the water and making sure the gear worked, we descended almost directly to 3 m where we began swimming, following the shoreline and boulders. As the season is a bit late, not many nudibranches were seen (or maybe it was because of decreased salinity due to rain the day before) Many sugar starfish were observed during this dive, as well as some pipefish, none of which i could photograph properly due to lacking gear. After around 40 minutes, me and my buddy decided to turn around and begin to swim back. As the depth was very shallow throughout the whole dive, we still had plenty of air in our tanks, and the limiting factor was just the temperature of the water. We swam back in a slow nice pace, photographing as we went.
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| Juvenile viviparous eelpout... i think... |
When we ended the dive and went up, 1 h and 18 minutes had passed, making this my longest dive so far.
All in all it was a nice and relaxed dive day, though it would have been nicer if the temperatures had
So until next time, Keep on Swimming!
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| Sea beech (Delesseria sanguinea), a kind of red algae commonly found on rocks and in crevices |
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