Skip to content
WAnimals
  • Map
  • Species
  • Parks
  • Diving
Log inCreate account
WAnimals

The guide for travellers and animal lovers: discover, plan and share your wild adventures around the world.

Discover wildlife

  • Species
  • Ecosystems
  • Glossary
  • Tags

Explore places

  • Map
  • Countries
  • Parks
  • Diving

Plan experiences

  • Guides

Learn

  • Blog

Resources

  • Help centre
  • Contact
  • Install the app

Follow us

Account

  • Log in
  • Create account

© 2026 WAnimals. All rights reserved.

About usHow we build our profilesTerms of servicePrivacyLegal notice
MapSpeciesParksDiving
  1. Home
  2. Diving and snorkelling
  4. Norway
  5. Saltstraumen

Saltstraumen

Extreme tidal current
Depth: 5–30 mLevel: Technical / highly advancedAll year round (depending on the tide)
Spotted something wrong?

Home to the strongest tidal current in the world (up to 40 km/h); divable only in the brief slack water window.

Depth

5–30 m

Recommended level

Technical / highly advanced

Average visibility

15 m

Location

Loading map…

Saltstraumen: 84 documented species

Similar dive sites

Which other dive sites are like this one?

Same country: Norway

Same country: Norway

Same country: Norway

Keep exploring

Based on what we already know about this dive site.

Comments

Share your experience diving or snorkelling at Saltstraumen.

Be the first to comment.

Water temperature

8 °C

Current

Extreme (the strongest tidal current in the world)

Access

Shore

Best season

All year round (depending on the tide)

Recommended certification

Drift Diver

Approx. price

90 USD / dive

Plan your dive

Best season
All year round (depending on the tide)
Approx. price
90 USD / dive
See location

Similar depth

Norway · Bodø, Arctic Circle
See on the interactive map→
Greater PipefishLeast Concern

Greater Pipefish

Syngnathus acus

European EelCritically Endangered

European Eel

Anguilla anguilla

CodVulnerable

Cod

Gadus morhua

Humpback WhaleLeast Concern

Humpback Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae

Common CockleNot Evaluated

Common Cockle

Cerastoderma edule

Common LobsterLeast Concern

Common Lobster

Homarus gammarus

MackerelLeast Concern

Mackerel

Scomber scombrus

Long-finned Pilot WhaleLeast Concern

Long-finned Pilot Whale

Globicephala melas

Green CrabLeast Concern

Green Crab

Carcinus maenas

Norway LobsterLeast Concern

Norway Lobster

Nephrops norvegicus

European Sand CumaceanNot Evaluated

European Sand Cumacean

Cumopsis goodsir

Common Hermit CrabNot Evaluated

Common Hermit Crab

Pagurus bernhardus

See all 84 species found here
Cold-water pelagic

Lofoten (orcas)

Norway

Up to 25 m · Advanced / drysuit

Orcas · humpback whales

See dive site
Ice/Polar

Svalbard (ice diving)

Norway

Up to 20 m · Technical (Ice Diving)

Ringed seals · occasional walruses

See dive site
Cold-water coral reef

Trondheimsfjord (cold-water corals)

Norway

Up to 80 m · Technical

Cold-water Lophelia corals · lobsters

See dive site
CountryNorway
This page in other languages: Español · Deutsch · Français · Português · Italiano
More places in Norway
Wreck (deep hold section)

Zenobia Wreck

Cyprus

Up to 42 m · Technical

Large groupers · barracuda

See dive site