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The Arctic has the North Pole at its centre. It has around 25,000 polar bears and is bounded by:

USA : Russia : Svalbard Spitsbergen (Norway) : Greenland and Canada

We are awaiting more scuba diving details. If you have any please contact Dogsbreathdivers@hotmail.com .

We suspect that the only divers here are professional expeditions and military forces. We would still appreciate your dive experiences - like our other contributors, your e-mail address will not be published unless you authorise it.

Once light reappears in Spring there is an algae bloom. The algae form the first step on the evolutionary ladder as they are eaten by many amphipods and copepods just a few millimetres long. They are eaten in turn by fish and other marine life which need to amass fat before the next winter. .
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The Arctic.

 

  • Poseidon Arctic Voyages. 1/4, Vtoroy Smolenskiy Per., 121099 Moscow, Russia, Tel: +7 095 241 5325 Fax: +7 095 241 7128 URL: www.northpolevoyages.com

  Ofotfiord
Ofotfiord, Norway

 

Sea water turns to ice at -1.8C

 This was the site of the Battle of Narvik fought in 1940 and was dived in 2002 by Seatech Group in England. The British Royal Navy caught the German transport ships and the destroyers escorting them unloading and refueling  in the harbour. Their are more than eight wrecks which were either sunk in under 40m/130feet or beached. The cold water has preserved them well and many artefacts are in excellent condition and as they were left.

Anton Schmidt: German destroyer, max 25m. Outside Ofotfiord harbour
Wilhelm Heidkamp: German destroyer, max 25m. Outside Ofotfiord harbour
Dieter Von Roeder: German destroyer, max 25m. Outside Ofotfiord harbour
Herman Kunneto; German destroyer.
Herman Kunne; Herjangen Fjord. German. This was beached and its bow is at 10m/33ft with the stern at 40m/130ft.
Georg Hiele's. German destroyer, its bow is in the air with the stern at 60m/190ft.
Neuenfels. 143m long cargo ship. The ammunition cargo has been removed
Martha Henrik Fisser, cargo ship.
Romanby, a captured British cargo ship is upright in 40m/130 ft.
Strassa, cargo ship lies in 26m with its bridge at 13m.
HMS Hardy, British destroyer. Salvage operations started.

Note - You need to get permission from the Norwegian port authorities to dive these wreck and it may take years (we're not joking) as some of them are still war graves and cannot be dived.

Cold water robs your body of heat 25 times faster than cold air
In August 2000 a group of tourists including American and British researchers travelling aboard a Russian ship informed the world that the ice at the North Pole, which is usually 6-7 feet thick, had melted. It was then a lake of around 1 square mile. Global warming is suspected.

August 2008 - it continues to melt.