Moskstraumen - Lofoten Islands
Moskstraumen is one of the world's most powerful maelstroms, a truly challenging drift dive in the Lofoten Islands. You’re carried along by immense currents, so the dive is less about spotting specific species and more about the raw power of the ocean. It’s definitely one for experienced divers who thrive on adrenaline and unique conditions, not for a leisurely reef exploration. We'd suggest checking local conditions very closely before even considering a trip.
- Location
- Lofoten Islands, Norway, Mediterranean & Europe
- Coordinates
- 67.807945, 12.818298
- Type
- drift
Marine Protected Area: Lofotodden
Nearby Dive Sites in Lofoten Islands
- Akkarvika
- Alfred von Tirpitz (wreck)
- ALTONA - 25m (wreck)
- ANTON SCHMIDT - 0m (wreck)
- ANTON SCHMIDT (POSSIBLY) - 22m (wreck)
- ATLAS - 60m (wreck)
- BENTE - 10m (wreck)
- Black Watch - 15-30m (wreck)
- BOYKY - 0m (wreck)
- CASTEL - 20m (wreck)
- Donnier 26 - 26m
- Dornier WW2 wreck Onoy (wreck)
- DS Flint (wreck)
- D/S Martha Heinrich Fisser - 24m (wreck)
- D/S Romanby - 24m (wreck)
Nearest Dive Centres to Moskstraumen
Marine Life in Lofoten Islands
Home to 17 recorded species including 12 reef fish, 3 sharks & rays, 1 crabs & lobsters, 1 clams & mussels.
Notable Species
- sprat (Sprattus sprattus) - Reef Fish
- Protestant (Clupea harengus) - Reef Fish
- Spawn (Gasterosteus aculeatus) - Reef Fish
- whiting (Merlangius merlangus) - Reef Fish
- Split (Scomber scombrus) - Reef Fish
- Cape Shark (Squalus acanthias) - Sharks & Rays
- Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) - Reef Fish
- pearl-side (Maurolicus muelleri) - Reef Fish
- lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) - Reef Fish
- Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) - Reef Fish
- blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) - Reef Fish
- Pollock (Trachurus trachurus) - Reef Fish
- Velvet belly lantern shark (Etmopterus spinax) - Sharks & Rays
- Flathead Catshark (Apristurus laurussonii) - Sharks & Rays
- speckled sea-louse (Eurydice pulchra) - Crabs & Lobsters
- Blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) - Clams & Mussels
- lesser argentine (Argentina sphyraena) - Reef Fish