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Swimming with dragons
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The tiny little newt is sitting tight on my finger. It hinders my movements
while I am swimming in this small pound, trying to capture good images of
the Great Crested Newts (Triturus cristatus) which are gathered here to mate
and spawn.
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Diving in Saltstraumen - the strongest whirlpool in the world |
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I am not without a little quivering in my body. Nervous trembling and
exitement strike me as I stand there holding on to my camera. Vebjørn
Karlsen has invited me to dive in the strongest whirlpool in the
world. He has made many dives here before and says that it is possible
without large problems.
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A fascinating World under Water NORWAY |
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In the splendour of shapes and colours in the underwater world is
mentioned, then automatically warm, tropical seas appear in the mind.
But it is wrong to believe diving and photographing is worthwhile
there only. The cooler waters are particularly rich in nutrients and
support a large number of organisms including some most unusual
creatures. This is also true for the coast of Norway that is being
influenced by northern Atlantic currents and hence the Gulf Stream.
Aided by this underwater photo equipment Erling Svensen was able to
catch the fascination of these habitats rarely ever visited by divers,
and to bring it up from the deep close to our eyes....
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The sea trees of Trondheim |
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Unique conditions in the chilly waters of Norway's
Trondheimsfjord (above) provide a habitat for coral sea bushes and
sea trees normally found only at great depths. There's even a coral
reef there, albeit no bigger than a Volkswagen van! Rudolf Svensen
recalls an autumn expedition not far south of the Arctic Circle.
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The greedy rockling |
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I live very close to the sea, and in the
winter time, I dress in my basement and make night dives on the
beach in front of my house every week. Last winter I was on my way
back to the beach, when I spotted a dead fish with a sea star on
with my torch.
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Beautiful and rare corals on old
offshore installations |
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It is October 1995. I am standing on one
of the bridges connecting the offshore installations on the Frigg
Field in the North Sea. It took the chopper aprox. one hour to get
here, so it is really far out in the open sea. I am watching the big
waves breaking on the steel foundation of the platform TCP1 while I
think of what happened last evening.
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photo agency with images mainly from wet environments.
Marine fauna is our specialty, but you will find images of
many different types on our web pages.
On these web pages, you will be able to buy
high-resolution photos, which you may download and use
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Meeting a strange sea slug (Akera
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My brother Rudolf and I was on a diving job in the fjord
of Hardanger this winter. We dived on several locations
and had already done two dives when we came to something
that looked like a rather uninteresting dive.
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Diving Norway's Fjords |
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Coral eggs in the cold waters of Norway's biggest
fjord provide an unforgettable experience for Rudolf Svensen, but
what would he and his companions find in the smaller but more
spectacular fjords of the south-west?
It was August 1999, the day before full moon, and, so far as I am
aware, the incredible sight I had just witnessed had never been
photographed in cold waters before - Pennatula phosphorea and
Funiculina quadrangularis corals, complete with "gameter" - tiny
balls that include both eggs and sperm - nestling at the tops of
their arms.
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Recent development on lobster farming in Norway– prospects and
possibilities |
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Due to a high market demand, low wild catches and a continuing
increase in prices, the European lobster has become a promising
candidate for closed-cycle and controlled aquaculture. In 2000, the
company Norwegian Lobster Farm AS initiated an extensive R&D project
on the European lobster, in cooperation with the Institute of Marine
Research in Bergen and Stavanger University College
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Image of the month :
Beautiful and rare
corals on old offshore installations.
Text : RUDOLF
SVENSEN
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It is October 1995. I am standing on one
of the bridges connecting the offshore installations on the Frigg
Field in the North Sea. It took the chopper aprox. one hour to get
here, so it is really far out in the open sea. I am watching the big
waves breaking on the steel foundation of the platform TCP1 while I
think of what happened last evening. We were down in the concrete
shaft of the platform TCP2. 90 metres below the surface it was only
the concrete walls that kept the sea apart from us. I was wondering
what it looked like on the other side of the wall? What kind of
marine creatures lived outside in the opne sea? It would be very
exciting to dive on one of these installations, but it is not
possible. Offshore regulations, rough conditions and inaccessibility
will make sure I never get my dream fullfilled.
19. March 2010. I hoist the tank on to
my sholders, grab the camera with my right hand and start walking
towards the water together with my brother Erling. In the sea just
in front of us is the rest of the jacket from TCP1 resting outside
the quay. The last two years have the installations on the Frigg
Field been stripped down piece by piece and this part of the steel
jacket is the last to be cut into pieces. On one leg lying on the
qay behind us is loads of the deepwater coral Lophelia pertuisa. We
are here to photograph, film and take gene samples of what hopefully
is alive corals. A bit more than an hour later is the job done. The
memory cards are full of unique images and we feel very lucky that
we have had this opertunity to experience something like this. Not
only did we find large occurrences of the reef building coral
Lophelia Pertusa, but we also found many specimens of the coral
Desmophyllum cristagalli which have been registered in Norway only a
couple of times. While we are on our way back to Stavanger, the
corals outside the quay have their own peoblems. Soon the jacket
they grow on will be cut to pieces, hoist on to trucks and sent to a
plant where they will be melted down to new steel structures.
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