DAY 3

A second day on the boat with a mass panic for me, I had lost my wedding ring! Having phoned my wife to confess I headed off with everyone to catch our boat feeling slightly down.
On reaching the dock the water was flat calm and the scenery looked stunning. No wind, three dives ahead and beautiful snow capped mountains surrounding us and the potential of three dives, couldn't wish for a better start to a dives.

Two models showing off the view from the harbour at the start of day 3

The only down side is that we had wanted to dive off an island about two hours north of the harbour and had been told the weather was going to be bad that day, my thoughts were that we had been a bit cheated. I learnt later to never distrust an Icelandic fisherman's weather predication's, just when we finished our third dive the weather set in full pelt.
We had been told, the day before, about a wall dive by an old Herring Factory that local divers used, so we decided to try it. The dive in itself was slightly disappointing, we dropped into five meters of water over a rocky bed and then explored the kelp strewn wreckage of an old crane. Following the slope downwards we dropped to about 22 meters over a silty floor had a swim round and then headed back to the crane. Great visibility but nothing much to see, about five large Plaice and a few Plumose anemones. We admitted defeat and headed to the surface after about 25 minutes, a wise decision saving air and giving us the opportunity to have a third dive later.

The Herring Factory

The second dive was a return to the thermal vents (yesterdays second dive). What a dive, yet again we were greeted by the friendly Wolf fish, who tried chewing on a few torches and Brett's camera. It more than lived up to our expectations and yet again provided us with good visibility and plenty to see, a shame to have to finish.

The view from the boat showing

Lunch consisted of Lembas bread, mars bars, coffee and crisps and sandwiches made at breakfast. With limited air we dived on a five meter rock reef which had a vertical cliff dropping to about 15 meters,  the top of the rock reef was covered in a dense kelp forest. Yet again great visibility and lots to see including the usuak sekection of Wolfies. Due to going in on a pre used cylinder we had to keep to shallow depths and touched 15 meters but on average stayed around the 6/7meter mark to make the most of dive.

Waiting to get on the boat (note the first step at sea level)

 

An enjoyable end to a good couple of days.
We docked about one o'clock and started unloading the boat.
Just as we were finishing the skipper came out holding a ring - my ring, what a relief! What a way to finish, the day was now back.
By now the weather had turned for the worse, the boat headed off in a gathering wind over water that was becoming extremely choppy and the pitch black sky had begun to snow. The bad weather had arrived as foretold. Into the vans and the 395km drive back to Rejkavik.