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|  Kongsfjord and Berlevåg – scuba diving under the Northern Lights
This trip takes you 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle, to water that is as clear as air, as blue as sapphire, and that puts tropical visibility to shame. Most of the dive sites, outstanding wrecks and natural reefs, no-one, except us, will have dived before.
Go explore, yet enjoying comfortable accommodation and home cooked food lovingly prepared using fresh local ingredients. | 
Here at 70º 52‘ you are further North than the Northern coast of Alaska, yet thanks to the Gulf Stream, the Arctic Ocean (the Barents Sea) does not freeze here and scuba diving is possible all year round. In summer the sun never sets and you can dive 24 hours a day. In winter the Northern Lights send veils of iridescent colours across the starry sky, visibility under water is 50 metres and more, and the ocean floor stretches out before your eyes with its valleys, hills and mountains – endlessly – that is when you understand that this world under water really is bigger than the world above water.
 To compensate for the cold water, life is bigger and brighter than in temperate or tropical waters – like the giant King Crabs (or Kamchatka Crabs), the biggest measure 2 m from claw to claw.
As you fly through the kelp forest, across wrecks and reefs you are joined by thousands of silvery fish – anything from enormous cod and haddock, or caipelin and tiny sardines to fierce looking wolffish - the only fish that has teeth strong enough to attack an adult King Crab.
 A hardboat especially equipped for scuba diving and deep sea fishing takes you to the dive sites in comfort and in style.
The great hospitality fits the awesome Arctic surroundings: it is not just nature that is unspoilt by tourism – the people here are unspoilt too.
You notice it in the tiny details, like the hand knitted woollen socks provided to guests in Kongsfjord Gjestehus, the fresh meadow flowers on the table (during the arctic summer), and a certain sparkle in people’s eyes when they talk about their native place.
 Kongsfjord is special in more than one way: unlike virtually any other town or city in Norway it was not destroyed during the second world war – there are plenty of old houses – like bright specs of colour dotted all along the fjord.
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Flights are excluded in the price of your holiday. We are not selling flights ourselves, but for our British guests we cooperate with Overseas Business Travel. The contact details for Overseas Business Travel can be found on our Terms page.
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