Crack diving in north Iceland

Gisli A. Gudmundsson · Issue 49, Jul/Aug 2009 · pp. 56–58

Products mentioned: Aquatica A-200, Nikon D200

For the exploring diver, few things are more exciting than underwater wrecks and cracks. Recently a few divers from a small town in northern Iceland went pioneering into one such crack, in an area not commonly known except perhaps to a few divers. As far as we know this crack hasn’t been explored before and definitely not photographed with a professional camera. The whole area is quite exotic and unique. Positioned in the midst of Kelduhverfi at the bottom of Öxarfjördur, with the national park in Jökulsárgljúfur and the famous Ásbyrgi nearby. The landscape is sculpted by volcanic action and glacial movement since the latter part of the last ice age, which was about 10-700 thousand years ago. Active volcanoes are not far away and the area still is seismically active with minor earthquakes occurring every now and then. The last major drift in Kelduhverfi occurred in 1975-76, changing and …