Strytan-The beginning of life on Earth

The summer of 2011 National Geographic Television came to dive and film Strytan to make TV program about  the beginning of life on Earth. (See Michael Russell NASA) With National Geographic TV came Bob Ballard that is probably most famous for discovering R.M.S...

Article about Strytan in Underwaterjournal

Strytan in UnderwaterjournalLast year the girls at www.dykkeren.com came to dive Strytan. Carole Robin wrote a article about the dive and got it published in www.underwaterjournal.com You can read about the dive and see the pictures by download underwaterjournal for...

Giant Icelandic Halibut (100 kg)

Every year the Halibut comes shallow to the cliffs of Iceland, looking for seabirds eggs falling off the cliffs, like this 100 kg Halibut.

The English steam trowler ST Honorius found in Iceland

 The old farmer Sverrir that lived at Ásmundarstöðum close to Raufarhöfn showed me were the steam trowler St Honorius sailed on a rock close to his farm and sank 19.01.1933. The bottom is coverd with kelp forest and after long dive I had not found the trawler. Then I...

Strytan Divecenter

Hjalteyri the small fishing village  Strytan Divecenter is renting the south part of the old herring factory in  Hjalteyri that was built 1937 and at  time  was the largest herring factory in Europe. From Hjalteyri is only 10 min with boat to dive Strytan and...