Diving mud

Diving from Sletten kai today was like diving in mud. The sea was one brown soup of mud and algae.

I didn't sea Nina on my way to the bottom. Had to sit still on the bottom for over a minute. Then I spotted her stream of air bubbles. A black shadow in the algae soup came towards me. After signaling, every thing OK, to each other we continued down and out of the harbor.

We have dived this place before, and therefore expected a clean sand floor. Not this time. Some brown algae I don't know have taken over the sea floor. This is usually a good place to pick scallops, but this time we didn't find many of them. Probably because of the algae. Got a handful of scallops and didn't see much else. But the cold May sun shined at us on the pier, so we used pretty long time to get our gear together. Just enjoying the sun, talking, eating and packing the gear together was worth the trip. After a rainy winter this cold sun was overwhelming.


Dive buddy Nina with treasures from the sea.


Me relaxing.