I don't have many dives but I think it will be a while before I have a more mesmerizing encounter than we had on the night dive of our AOW course.
We did the course in Gullmarsfjord in Lysekil, Sweden.
This is considered to be one of the best diving locations in all of Scandinavia and I can see why...
It was September this year and our instructors kept in raving about how amazing the mareel was going to be, I had no clue what it was then but oh my did I learn!
It was my first night dive ever and I was so baffled by all the jellyfish that had been mostly annoying during the day but now they were all flashing with green, blue and red lights like some sort of aliens haha.
We all shut off our flashlights as agreed and I got a bit disoriented so waved my arm a bit to level out and well, ****...
The mareel exploded with light all around us as we were all waving around our hands, it was so unreal I could just as well have been tripping on acid!
We hovered around for a minute or two completely stunned by how amazing nature is, the dive was rounded off nicely with a few of us spotting a tiny squid half buried in the sand, he disappeared too quickly to get caught on camera though but the mental picture is etched into my brain forever
Can't wait for next year to head back there!
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