Place

The Silfra Rift is an absolute world class dive site due to two main reasons.First of all you will be diving in a crack between the American and Eurasian continents.It's the place where the continental plates meet and drift apart about 2cm per year.

64.8343° N, 18.9770° W

Secondly the visibility that you will experience will rarely be surpassed, if ever. 100m+! The reasons for this clarity are twofold: the water is cold ( 2°C - 4°C all year ) since it's the melting water from a glacier about 50km away and has traveled through the lava fields for many years before coming out at the north end of Thing vellir lake through underground wells.

Transport:

By plane

Iceland is easily reached via air and the main international airport is Keflavík, located in the southwest of the country about 40 km fromReykjavík. The airport itself is quite barren; if you have a lengthy layover you should bring books or other forms of entertainment.

Iceland is not in the EU*. This means passengers arriving from outside Iceland whose final destination is Iceland or who have to recheck baggage will have to go through customs controls at the port of entry (usually at Keflavík), regardless of place of origin. However, a duty-free store is present in the arrivals baggage claim area, and one can purchase duty-free products when in transit to the European mainland.

*EU=European Union

By boat

Smyril Line operates a weekly service from Hirtshals in Denmark. The ferry sails in two nights to Seyðisfjörður, on the east coast of Iceland, via Torshavn, in theFaeroe Islands