Koltur Wall
Dive site
The uninhabited island of Koltur drops sheer into the Atlantic on its western face, creating a vertical wall that descends past 40 metres and is encrusted with dead-men's fingers soft coral, sea anemones, and sponges in amber and white. Polar cod school at the wall top and northern bottlenose whales have been recorded passing in the blue. An exposed site that requires settled weather but rewards with some of the most dramatic topography in the North Atlantic.
Conditions
Depth
5 to 40 m
Advanced depths
Current
Usually gentle
Can pick up on the edge
Visibility
15 to 25 m
Clearest in the calm season
Water
7 to 13°C
7mm drysuit
Month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water (°C) | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Vis (m) | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 8 |
| Current | Strong | Strong | Moderate | Moderate | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | Gentle | Moderate | Moderate | Strong | Strong |
Your chances of seeing each animal
Dead-men's fingers soft coral
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Plumose anemone
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Polar cod
Rare
Now and then
Northern bottlenose whale
Rare
Now and then
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