Nudibranch Safari

Lars Stenholt Kirkegaard · Issue 144, May/Jun 2025 · pp. 50–57

Products mentioned: TG-7 camera, Smart Torch snoot

Every year a Nudibranch Safari is held at the popular diving site Gulen in Norway. The event is known to everyone with an interest in nudibranchs, but also by many underwater photographers, because even though Gulen is a cold-water diving destination, it is also a hot spot when it comes to underwater photography. In addition to being an ordinary diving resort, due to its good logistics, it has been used over the years for workshops, TV recordings, training and other events by underwater photographers from all over the world. I started doing workshops here myself almost 15 years ago, where I had Alex Mustard as a co-teacher. Gulen is a really nice diving site, which has some of Norway’s best wreck dives in the immediate area, and at the same time it has a very easily accessible and usable house reef right in front of the center, which is known to house an extraordinary number of nudibranc…