Scuba Diving Tour in the Silfra Fissure

Once you arrive at Silfra, our experienced dive guides will give a thorough briefing. This will include details about diving procedures, signs and signals, national park rules, equipment, the route, and, most importantly, how to use the dry suit.

We’ll gear you up and walk you to the entrance of the dive site. You’ll have to walk a few hundred meters in your dry suit before getting to the water. You’ll first stand on a platform with water up to your waist so you can comfortably get used to the frigid water temperature. After each diver has done a weight check with the dive guide, it will be time to plunge into the rift!

You’ll dive through each of the four sections of Silfra. The first section is the Silfra Deep Crack, which is long and narrow as it winds to the left and right. As we dive further, the fissure widens into what we call the Silfra Hall. It leads to the fissure's deepest point called the Silfra Cathedral. The maximum depth allowed for a dive at Silfra is 18 meters, but the visibility is far deeper than that. After the Cathedral, we’ll turn left to enter the final part of the dive, Silfra Lagoon. 

After stepping onto the exit platform, your guide will help you remove your fins and you’ll have a chance to get the blood flowing with the roughly 1300-feet (400-meter) walk back to the car park. 

Once back in the car park, we’ll help you take the rest of your gear off and get you some hot chocolate and cookies. Warm your hands while telling us about your dive! 

Important! For our diving tours in Silfra, you are required to have a dry suit certification or a log book with 10 logged dry suit dives in the last two years. However, if you don’t have any of these, you can join our 2-day drysuit specialty course that includes PADI Dry Suit Specialty course on day one and diving in Silfra on the second day. Otherwise, check out our snorkeling tour in Silfra, which doesn’t require any certification or experience!

• We offer free pickups from Reykjavik on all dive tours.
  
  
• If you plan to meet us on location, the meeting point is at the Silfra car park, in Thingvellir National Park. Please note that the National park charges a small parking fee for those that choose to meet on location.
  
  
• You should arrive at Silfra car park at least 15 minutes prior to the tour start. For example, please arrive at 8:45 a.m. for the tour that begins at 9 a.m.

Requirements

Drysuit diving experience in the form of either Drysuit certification or a minimum of 10 logged drysuit dives. You need to have dived in a drysuit within the last 2 years. Your dive guide will ask you to see proof of your certification or logbook before the tour starts.

All divers have to supply their height/weight upon booking to ensure we bring you suitable equipment. For safety reasons, all divers need to understand instructions in English and be able to communicate with the dive guide in English. Guests are required to review the Diver Medical Participant Questionnaire. If you answer ‘Yes’ to certain questions, you must provide signed approval from a doctor in order to join the tour.

In order to participate in this tour, you have to have an Open Water diver certification or higher.

Please read our Diving Handbook for more information about the tour.

Age limit: Minimum 18 years old
Weight limit: 50-120 kg
Height limit: 155-200 cm

Note: 

• You can’t wear glasses underneath the diving mask. You will have to dive without glasses, so please wear contact lenses or bring your own mask with a prescription.
  
  
• Avoid cotton underwear. If cotton gets wet, it will make you colder, so we recommend wearing wool or fleece.

• You need to be physically fit to be able to walk about 1300 feet (400 m) with full dry suit equipment on.
  
  
• Divers must supply their dry suit sized upon booking to ensure we provide the right equipment for you.
  
  
• You must bring a dry suit certification or logbook with 10 logged dry suit dives in the last two years.