Hi and ho!
This weekend we did two days of diving, one in a new site and one in one of our regular sites. On the first day, we went to the new spot, a spot named Lunneviken, which is close to the Norwegian border and that we have been looking at for quite a while now. The second day, we went to the dive spot at Fossen camping ground, a semi-regular spot for us by now.
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| Common sunstar on a rock. |
3/7 2021: Lunneviken
Dive 1:
Depth: 29 m, Time 51 min, Temp: 12 C
We started with diving on the right side of Lunneviken, as this wasn't a site we knew much about beforehand. As we descended, the visibility was bad in the surface waters, but cleared up pretty good at We followed the slope downwards for a bit before hitting a small drop-off of a ledge, which we followed down until we saw the bottom at about 23 m depth. The bottom here consisted of shells as well as soft sand or mud. It was also littered with bottles and some other trash... Well either way, we followed the wall towards the right, with not much to be seen in terms of marine life that was outside of what we are used to in the Gullmar fjord.
After we turned around, we got a bit lost and swam a bit too far to the left, surfacing at the far left side of the bay of Lunneviken, so we had to swim back to the right bay on the surface.
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| The Rock cook (Centrolabrus exoletus), a small yet colourful labrid fish. |
Dive 2
Depth: 29 m, Time 50 min, Temp: 12 C
After a nice surface intervall in the sun, with some ice cream and cold soda, we went for the second dive. This time, we planned on diving the left side of Lunneviken, so we did a surface swim to the left side of the bay before we started descending. Once again, the visibility was terrible on the surface, but cleared up as soon as we got a bit deeper down. We followed the wall downwards and towards the left. On this side, the bottom was a bit more interesting, with more life to see, though still not much different from how it is on our regular spots, but then again, it rarely is. The area here seemed to be more with ledges, cliffs jutting out and other somewhat interesting formations, which will probably be better to explore when one has richer gas mixes, as they lie a bit deep.
Next time, we know that the left side is the side to dive on this site, might have been more interesting if we knew this site a bit better.
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| Rough mantled doris (Onchidoris bilamellata), one of 95 known species of nudibranches in Sweden. |
4/7 2021 Fossen
Dive 1:
Depth: 32 m, Time 61 min, Temp: 12 C
As we descended, the visibility was pretty OK between 5 and 10 m, after 10, there was a huge area full of silted sediment, probably as a result of the another dive club's OW students having a fun dive there at that same day. After swimming through the silt cloud, we got to the drop-off at about 15 m, where the waters cleared up once more. We followed the wall downwards almost straight vertically until we found the bottom at about 30 m depth. After finding the bottom, we started following the bottom with the wall to our right side, taking it easy and looking through crevices and underneath rocks for lobsters, crabs and other marine animals that likes to hide.
As we swam back, we came across a group doing a drysuit course run by one of the dive centres in Gothenburg. It was at this point that someone managed to drop on top of my buddy from this course, which was less than ideal really. We surfaced at about 61 minutes, 1 minute more than planned, good thing we were the first in our group back up, because it could have made any surface organisation a bit nervous if we didn't come up by the pre-planned time.
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| A beautiful Henricia starfish, this genus keep being hard to identify to species level. |
Dive 2:
Depth: 27 m, Time 45 min, Temp: 12 C
After surface intervall, we headed out once more into the waters. This time, due to the second person in the second pair not feeling up for another dive, we choose to dive in a group of 3 instead. We descended in a orderly fashion and started following the wall down. This time we stopped at about 26 m depth, hovering along the wall as we swam to the right. On this dive, quite a few White sea urchins were observed sitting along the wall from 20 m and down. Not much else was out of the ordinary on this dive.
As we neared the end of our dive, my camera ran out of batteries, which was unfortunate as there was a lot of orange brown aeolids in the eelgrass meadow right before the shore.
All in all, it was a nice weekend for diving, We got to try out a new place even :)
So until next time! Keep on Swimming!
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| An aberrant Spiny starfish, with a seventh arm growing out. |
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