Strýtan Dive Center is a small, family-run dive center in North Iceland, operated by Erlendur Bogason for more than 25 years.

We offer personal diving experiences across North Iceland, where you can discover a colorful and surprisingly diverse world beneath the surface — from unique underwater landscapes to the marine life of Iceland’s northern waters.

Alongside recreational diving and guided tours, Strýtan Dive Center also provides professional commercial diving services throughout the region.

25+ Years Beneath Iceland

Every pin tells a story.

For more than 25 years, our dives have taken us all around Iceland — from recreational diving and exploration to research and commercial work.

Each pin marks somewhere we’ve been beneath the surface.

Meet the Strýtan Family

Small, family-run and shaped by a lifetime at sea.

Strýtan Dive Center is more than a place to go diving. We are a small team with decades of experience, local knowledge and a shared love for Iceland’s underwater world.

Diving Tours

Personal Diving Experiences

Explore the underwater world of North Iceland with us.

No two dives in North Iceland are quite the same. We keep our groups small and our diving personal, selecting dive sites based on experience, conditions and what the day has to offer.

From individual dives and full-day adventures to multi-day trips and seasonal experiences, there is always something different to discover beneath the surface.

Diving Courses

Learn How to Dive in Iceland!

Learn how to dive in the “coolest” waters

We offer a variety of scuba diving courses, everything from beginners courses up to Dive Masters internships. So far we have 9 different specialties and we hope that with the years they’ll be more. We also offer Discover Scuba Diving so even if you have never tried diving before you can start here in Iceland! We have amazing facilities to practice diving, good classroom, amazing shallow training dive sites and we also work with the pool in Akureyri, Sundlaug Akureyrar to do all our pool training.

Hydrothermal Chimneys – Natural wonders in the North Atlantic Ocean

We are the official protectors of Strytan and Arnarnesstrytan, underwater rock formations and hydro chimneys located at the bottom of Eyjafjordur bay in North Iceland, by contract with the Environmental Agency of Iceland.These natural wonders are the first protected underwater areas in Iceland. Diving in this area without permission from Strýtan and Erlendur Bogason, is not permitted. You you must first contact us to learn about the area and how to interact with the extraordinary and rare underwater wonders that the area has to offer.