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Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Underwater Photo Sites

Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Underwater Photo Sites


Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands Underwater Photo Sites
This site is outside the westernmost sill in Hornsund, so it often has decent visibility and hosts a marine community more typical of the outer coast of western Spitsbergen than the fjord waters to the east. A steep shelving rock wall, mostly covered in a dense growth of Laminaria hyperborea, drops to a coarse sandy bottom at about 80 feet. Water temperature typically about 35F (2C) in July and August. Often a great site for zooplankton like pteropods, ctenophores and larvaceans.
Facts about Gashamna, West Point
Dive types
drysuit

Marine Life
smallkelp



by David Cothran
Clione limacina, a pteropod or sea butterfly, photographed in Hornsund, Spitsbergen. There was a bizzard of zooplankton in the water that day - you can just make out some calanoid copepods in the water around the pteropod.
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