Hi and ho!
This weekend we went to the Fossen camping dive site, as this is a site we don't dive as often, while also being a popular dive spot with some facilities for divers and guests. This time we had a newer diver with us, as well as someone who needed a "de-rust" dive after not diving for a few month.
Well either way, We arrived to the site and saw that there wasn't as many divers there this day, making parking much easier, got out of the car and started setting up gear for the dives. After some uncertainties of the buddy pairs got fixed up, we started heading out into the water for the first dive.
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| Dahlia anemone, a beautiful "not flower" in the sea |
Dive 1:
Depth 30m, Time: 56 min, Temp: 15 °C
Me and my buddy started swimming outwards, and soon realized that the waves was going to make the surface swim rough, so we instead opted to start descending and start the dive a bit earlier. So we descended and started following the bottom outwards. As we reached the cliff edge, we encountered one of the other pairs (and a thermocline), the pair with the newer diver, which seemed to have some issues with their buoyancy right there and then, so me and my buddy hung around for a little bit and watched, to see if our other friend would need assistance with the new diver. But after a while, the newer diver got their trim in somewhat of a control, and no issues seemed to arise right there and then. So me and my buddy continued to descend, following the cliff wall downwards and towards the right side.
After a bit, it was time to turn around and starting to swim back, which we started to do, but right as we did this, i spotted two rather fine Dahlia anemones a bit further down, which i decided to take some photos of. Unfortunately due to me getting low to NDL, i could only take good photos of one of them. Either way, as we neared the end of our dive, we came into the area with a eelgrass meadows, as it turned out, the sun was in a very good position right there and then, so the way the light hit the water and the meadow was indeed photogenic, so on the safety stop, i spent the time hanging about, trying to take photos of the eelgrass, which wasn't easy, as the wave energy could be felt at this depth, thus disturbing the photographing somewhat. We surfaced at 56 minutes, got up and doffed our gear, preparing for a surface interval in the sun.
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| Eelgrass meadow, full of eelgrass anemones |
Dive 2:
Depth 31m, Time: 49 min, Temp: 15 °C
After a 1 h surface interval, me and my buddy once again donned our scuba gear and got into the water for a second dive. We once again descended early, as the waves were still going straight into the bay of the dive site. This time however, we went almost straight out from the shore, finding the cliff edge after a little while, and starting to descend following the cliff downwards. As we descended, i spotted a small, thin, wormlike form on the cliff, with a closer look, i determined it was a ribbon worm of some kind (when i got home and looked it up, it turned out to be a Football jersey worm). We continued following the wall downwards in a similar fashion to the previous dive. Soon however, it became time to start going upwards, as we both were running quite low on NDL time, This time however, we were both chased quite severely by the NDL. After turning around and starting to swim back, me and my buddy encountered a relatively big lobster underneath a set of rocks at about 12 m depth, which we stayed to look at (and in my case, photograph) for a bit, before the NDL time started to run low once more. As we continued for a bit, we encountered a second big lobster, this one a bit more shy compared to the previous one. We surfaced at 49 minutes, got up and started disassembling our gear and prepared to go home.
All in all, it was a super nice day for diving, even if the winds came from a bad direction for this site.
So until next time! Keep on swimming!
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| Football jersey worm (Tubulanus annulatus), a ribbon worm with a appetite for polychaetes |
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