Black day


Today we dived El Grillo in Seydisfjordur and had some (small) hardships. Our Iceland trip is also about to end and we are in a school / summer guest house waiting for Norröna to take us to the Faroen islands.

El Grillo is 150m long WWII oil tanker sunk in the front of Seydisfjordur. A local fisherman from Seydisfjordur took us to the wreck which is only about 500 meters from the harbour. The visibility was quite bad and the wreck is quite deep (25-45m) so we could not see much about it during a single dive. However, we got some oil from the ship into our scuba gear and also broke some of it, so we spent some time fixing and cleaning the gear after the dive. It was also kind of funny to be greeted on the harbor by a 7-year old girl (our skipper's daughter we suppose) carrying a can of iso-propanol and bag of rags for us...





Our Iceland round is now basically over. I have never been in a such a strange and in a rough way beautiful country. We did miss the West Fjords and many other places so it is clear that two weeks is not enough for both diving and sight seeing.

Maybe the strangest thing was, though, that it basically did not rain during our two weeks in Iceland. We have had some showers but otherwise the weather has been just great if a bit cool.

We also met a few local people (mostly connected to our diving sessions) and they were all very friendly and nice to us.

Next we are going to Faroen Islands for a few days. Last time there was no GPRS available so this log will probably not be updated for a while.


Posted: Ke - Heinäkuu 28, 2004 at 09:55 PM        

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