Diving

Cold water diving in Greenland takes place in clear waters with icebergs, historic shipwrecks, strange plant life and action-packed dives at the mouth of a fiord or bay.

THE DIVE THAT BUILDS CHARACTER

Diving in the Arctic demands strength of character because the environment under the ocean surface requires the diver’s full attention. However, if cold water diving is something you would like to do with PADI OWA certified divers, who know the secrets of the fiord system, then a surprising world awaits you with places never before seen by a diver.

The flora and fauna under the ocean surface can only be described as different – even a bit strange – with catfish and lumpsuckers, forests of seaweed and odd looking sea cucumbers all vying for attention. There is a reason why cold water areas biologically are the most prolific areas in the world only surpassed by the coral reefs.

DIVING NEXT TO ICEBERGS

Diving under the ice is a specialty in East Greenland where Arctic Dream and Northern Explorer have found the best places in the area by Tasiilaq, combining blue icebergs with coral diving, ice caves and accommodation on land in huts in the fiord.

A surprising world of pristine dives await.

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Package Tours

Greenland Adventures by Icelandic Mountain Guides

Icefjord and remote villages

Dive back into time, learn about the culture of Inuit, how they have survived for generations despite being so isolated.

FROM €2,900

Arctic Exposure

Scoresby Sound Expedition - Photo Tour

Scoresby Sound is a large fjord system of the Greenland Sea and located on the eastern coast of Greenland.

From $6,790

Blue Ice Explorer

Traditional kayak experience - 1 day

Explore the old inuit culture by paddling in a kayak built using the traditional, greenlandic methods.

FROM €180

Greenland Tours

Coastal Ship - South & West

13 days in the south & west of Greenland incl. 5 days on board Sarfaq Ittuk

FROM 1385€

DIVING DURING WINTER TIME IN GREENLAND

If diving, to get down to a Greenlandic shipwreck or by icebergs, is not enough to feed your appetite for adventure then diving during winter time would be your next move.

Diving in ice filled waters and from holes in the ice is an on-the-edge event, but because the water temperature in the Davis Strait is much the same all year, your diving experience won’t feel any colder during winter, than it does in summer.

Winter diving, on the other hand, offers an almost surreal swirling of lights under the ice, and you will most likely pause for a moment, when back on deck again, taking in the view of the snow clad mountains along the shoreline.

Cold water diving in Greenland is only done with PADI OWA certified diving instructors as guides
Travellodge Greenland is based in Tasiilaq on the east coast of Greenland
Diving platforms are boats certified to carry up to 12 passengers
You are required to have a PADI OWA certificate and previous cold water diving is an advantage

Underwater flora of Greenland from diver's perspective. Photo by Morten Beier.

Front of a ship from diver's perspective. Photo by Morten Beier.

Diving under icebergs in Greenland. Photo by: Morten Beier

Divers swim on the surface of an iceberg . Photo by Morten Beier.

Underwater fauna of Greenland. Photo by Morten Beier.

Wreck of an old ship in Greenlandic waters. Photo by Morten Beier.

Fish captured by a diver in the Greenlandic waters. Photo by Morten Beier.

Underwater flora of Greenland. Photo by Morten Beier.

Package Tours

Arctic Umiaq Line

Discover Greenland from the sea

The coastal ship Sarfaq Ittuk sails from southern Greenland up along Greenland’s west coast to Disko Bay.

FROM DKK500

ACTION FILLED DIVING IN THE FIORDS

For individuals, who wish to keep their blood circulation going mixed in with a bit of adrenalin, we have a very special sport, and the best way to describe it, is as underwater surfing.

In all its simplicity, it is about letting yourself drift with the current to an edge of an underwater ridge at the mouth of the fiord, and when the surge of waters from the tidal shift are squeezed over the ridge, you are sucked along by powerful underwater currents. According to what we have heard, it is supposed to be fun.

By Visit Greenland

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