Sandvik 27/9 2020. Muck, walls and soft bottoms

Hi and ho!

This weekend me and my buddies went to a site we don't go to as often, Sandvik, which is the dive site furthest into the fjord i know in this area. We decided on this spot due to simply wanting a bit of change.

We arrived at the site, surveyed it, divided ourselves into dive pairs, kitted up and got ready to go into the water.

Swimming crab hiding in the sediment

Dive 1:

Depth: 24m, Time: 47 min, Temp: 16 °C

We swam out to a spot we deemed appropriate for descending, when we reached this particular spot, we rested a bit on the surface before we started descending. We descended quickly and began swimming towards the north west as soon as we could see the bottom. We soon found the wall at about 20 m, which we followed for a little bit, photographing as we went. After a while, we hit turning pressure and started swimming back towards the starting point again. As we swam over the mud bottom that was the seafloor I saw that there was a lot of sea-squirts littering the bottom, both the kind that is found at bottoms, and the kind that usually grows on more solid substrates.

We surfaced at 47 minutes, almost exactly at the same spot we started the dive on, after surfacing, we swam back to the shore, got up and prepared for a surface intervall. 

A cluster of Sea vase tunicates

Dive 2:

Depth: 24 m, Time 48 min, Temp: 16 °C

After a surface intervall with coffee, it was time to get into the water once more. This time i had to join another buddy pair, as my original buddy only wanted to do one dive that day (with diving wet and all, i understand that). So, we did a quick shuffle in the dive pairs and set out for the second dive. We first swam to about the same starting point as the previous dive and started descending from there. This time, we went to the right instead following the wall there for a bit. As we were swimming there, one of my buddies signalled that they were seeing something close to a pair of rocks, I swam closer, to see, and behold! A european lobster was peeking out of a burrow underneath the rocks, so i tried to take at least some photos of it before we continued downwards. After a little while we turned around and started swimming to the left instead, which we did until we hit turn pressure, after which, we started swimming back to our starting point again. We surfaced and got to the shore once more, thus ending the dives for the day.

All in all it was a nice dive day, even if the dive site was a bit on the "muddy" side.

So until next time! Keep on swimming!

European lobster peeking out of it's hidey-hole