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We spent last three days in Bergen before heading back home. We did some diving there and found out that the waters outside Bergen offer excellent diving.

Norröna arrived to Bergen on tuesday noon in a nice weather. We were met with a view of rocky hills and trees - a welcome sight after weeks of lava fields and barren islands.





Inger Lise from DG dive club offered us her apartment for lodging. Unfortunately she had to go to an oil platform for her two weeks shift the same day so she could not dive with us and we even did not have time for a round of Ruusu. She however arranged us some diving the next day and showed us around the city. Thank you Inger Lise for everything!

On wednesday we went to the premises of a local diving club, SUB-BSI, where we met Gro - another DG member who went diving with us. Thanks, Gro, for the dives and dive information.





Inger Lise had also supplied us with the dive plan for our next dive in Svelgen. The plan was very accurate despite the looks.





Svelgen is a narrow passage between small islands and the current is usually very heavy there attracting lots of life. The visibility was 20-30 meters and the passage was full of life including a big cat fish etc. An excellent but also very heavy dive as we had to carry our equipment for long distances in warm temperature (our good Karma was still there as it is supposed to rain 400 days / year in Bergen and we had sunny day for the diving).






Some people decided to continue their dive to the next island and had quite a long and hard way to carry their equipment back to cars :-)






On thursday we did some more diving in the area and walked around in Bergen. The city looks good and is definately worth visiting.

Our journey is now basically over and all we have left is to drive back to Finland (1200 Km and one ferry to go). Four weeks went very quickly and next week we have to adapt back to the civilized life and work. It is not going to be easy...




Posted: To - Elokuu 5, 2004 at 08:25 PM        

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