Arctic and Antarctic Diving

Ready for something exhilarating and challenging? Polar dive expeditions show experienced divers a world with crystal-clear waters and incredible light streaming through ice. This is not a world devoid of life, quite the opposite!

Arctic Diving

Atlantic polar waters offer regular zodiac diving as well as wreck diving. The combination of sunlight, sea water and the often extraordinary formations of ice make an awe-inspiring, ever-changing specter of colors with a fantastic variety of shades and brilliance. Typical marine life here include sea squirts, squat lobsters, many species of starfish, spider crabs, soft corals, anemones, peacock worms, dogfish, kelp walls, sea-snails, crabs, sea butterflies, various Arctic fish, shrubby horsetails, jellyfishes, sea hedgehogs and starfishes. In Spitsbergen you may dive with seals.

Arctic Dive Dates & Pricing

June 14, 2010: North Spitsbergen
7 nights onboard the Plancius, from $3,800 and up

July 8, 2010: Around Spitsbergen
10 nights onboard the Plancius, from $5,500 and up

Antarctic Diving

During Antarctic dive expedition you may observe penguins from under the surface as well as sea lions and even leopard seals. The Falkland Islands are rich with krill which brings about many krill-eating species. The dive sites will vary from shallow ice diving, diving along a wall, from a beach or from the zodiac. While snorkeling or diving along the ice-floes, you will be amazed and never forget these deep blue colors.

Diving in Antarctica does not only offer ice, but also an interesting marine life such as kelp walls, sea snails, crabs, sea butterflies, various Antarctic fish, shrubby horsetails, jellyfish, sea hedgehogs, starfish, krill and giant isopods. You may have the possibility to snorkel or dive with fur seals, leopard seals and penguins.

Antarctic Dive Dates and Pricing

February 12, 2010: Falklands – South Georgia – Antarctic Peninsula
18 nights onboard the Professor Molchanov, from $11,790 and up

March 2, 2010: Antarctic Peninsula
10 nights onboard the Professor Molchanov, from $5,890 and up

March 6, 2010: Polar Circle – Antarctic Peninsula
11 nights onboard the Professor Multanovskiy, from $,6490 and up

March 12, 2010: Polar Circle – Antarctic Peninsula
11 nights onboard the Professor Multanovskiy, from $6,490 and up

January 25, 2011: Antarctic Peninsula
10 nights onboard the Plancius, from $7,990 and up

February 22, 2011: Antarctic Peninsula
10 nights onboard the Plancius, from $7,990 and up

March 4, 2011: Weddell Sea – Antarctic Peninsula
11 nights onboard the Plancius, from $7,690 and up

March 15, 2011: Polar Circle – Antarctic Peninsula
11 nights onboard the Plancius, from $7,690 and up

Preparing for Polar Diving

These voyages are not for beginners, you'll have to be a very experienced diver and familiar with cold water diving with at least twenty dry suit dives under your belt. The dive-dedicated departures plan to do at least one or two dives per day, weather and ice conditions permitting. All diving is done by buddy system, the guides will stay on the surface and follow your progress from the zodiac. All equipment except weights for your weight belt must be brought in, there is no rental equipment onboard. Detailed list for all gear necessary will be provided.