Silfra
Þingvellir
A must for evry diver visiting Iceland
Silfra is a world top 3 diving site located in just about a hour drive from Reykjavik. Silfra is actually the ravine between the Eurasian and the American continental plates, which are drifting apart about 2 cm in average every year. When diving Silfra you can dive from Europe to America and back as many times you like and no visas needed.
Silfra has a constant temperature of 2-4°C year around because Silfra is actually a spring coming up from underneath the lava field after traveling for years underground from our glaciers and going as deep as 6 kilometers into the ground. The water is about 1/3 glacier water and about 2/3 rain water. You can swim out the ravine effortless because of a mild current pushing you. Silfra never freezes over because of the current, so we can dive it year around.
Silfra offers open water diving, caving and deep diving, but the depth is about 40 meters open water and 58 meters inside a cave (we do not offer dives down to there). The maximum depth on our tours is usually around 15 meters. Weather does almost not play any part in diving in Silfra, except it´s more beautiful in sunny weather. If we can go up there, because of snow (during winter), we can dive there. Please go to our tour page or contact us, if you wish to go diving in Silfra.
Silfra is beautiful all year around and the Silfra tour are done on request all year. In the summer time from June 1st to July 15th we offer Silfra afternoon tours due to our 24 hours daylight during that time of the year. Please go to our photo gallery here on the left to see more pictures from Silfra. Contact Hedinn on info@diveiceland.com for more information or to book the tour to this amazing place.