Parting Shots

Lena Holm · Issue 55, Jul/Aug 2010 · pp. 74–75

Products mentioned: Canon 400D, Ikelite housing, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Canon EOS 5D, Subal CD5 housing, Sigma 15mm fish-eye lens

Parting Shot 1 I live in Sweden and dive in cold water all year round, preferably along the Swedish west coast or the Norwegian coast. In January 2010 I experienced one of the most spectacular dives that I have ever done during a visit to Gulen, just north of Bergen in Norway. The dive centre Gulen Dykkesenter and the Norwegian UW-photographer Christian Skauge arranges dive-safaris each year to Lurefjorden, to watch and photograph the deep-sea jellyfish Periphylla periphylla (helmet jelly). This magical creature is present in seas all over the world but it is very rarely seen by divers because they are few and far between and usually live at depths impossible for divers to visit. In some Norwegian fjords however, the helmet jelly occurs in permanent and extremely large numbers and during the night they perform a vertical migration sometimes all the way up to the surface. On this particul…