Good morning yesterday we drove to Silfra because today we have a big day
we are going to snorkelling and it's the very first time that we are going to
try drysuits and we have to wear
thermal underwear as you can see this is thermal underwear
and this is thermal underwear and I have another layer
because I want to be really really warm and I'm going to put another
sock this is my ski socks
in case you haven't watched the previous videos
during the last 9 days, we drove our campervan around Iceland
We have visited a lot of amazing places and had
so much fun but nothing can compete with what we are doing today
we will be swimming in Silfra between continental plates
there are a lot of flies here and that's why
they gave us this hat. oh my god these flies they were killing us
anyway, I need to put on this drysuit. I should go to the changing room
today is a warm day actually
let me put my hat because there are a lot of flies there
all right so we are located here and we're going to get dressed up and finished
everything here it is a little bit of a warm day so we're just gonna keep our
suits open in the back to get a little airflow in there we can put our hoods and
the gloves over there it's only like a 50 meter walk it's just
over there, where the people are this is the entry point
We'll put our fins and the snorkel and mask and everything there
one thing I'm gonna remind you again over there is that we have a hood on
Wearing a drysuit keeps us warm by ensuring that no water gets into the suit
I have a leash we couldn't do a scuba diving here
because we needed a certification for drysuit and which we don't have we
always scuba dive with wetsuits this is the first time we put
a drysuit on next time maybe
the water temperature at SIlfra is between 2 and 4 degrees celsius all year round
which is pretty cold. That's why we have
to wear a dry suit to be able to dive or a snorkel here
there is no place like Silfra on planet earth
why is Silfra so special? because Silfra is a rift between
the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates
it was formed after a major earthquake in 1789.
the plates have continued to move farther apart by
about two centimeters every year
as you see the water is really clear the reason is simple. Silfra is filled
with glacial meltwater which takes 30 to 100 years to travel 50 kilometres
through lava fields because of this the water here is the purest natural fresh
water in the world and the visibility exceeds 100 meters
if you are a diver you should already know that visibility
underwater between 20 to 30 meters in other places is considered great visibility
it was amazing oh my god the water was so clear
It was good it was not that cold you could see everything, so cool
it was two degrees but I didn't feel cold
I didn't feel cold
we had an amazing experience of the snorkelling but
since we are going up there in the American part
here we have a great view of the biggest lake in iceland
you can see silver is just a small part of the lake
we left the national park and drove to the southwest
to this geothermal area if you remember we saw one of these sites
in the north and now we are in the south
roaming around the boiling mud pools and seeing steam rising from the earth
feels surreal. Am I right?
thank you
bye