Diving Between Two Continents

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When it comes to Iceland diving, you can’t possibly miss out on the famous tectonic plate dive in Silfra. Known as “The Dive Between Continents,” the frigid dive in Thingvellir National Park is unlike any other you’ve experienced. Though devoid of much life, the history of the crack is really why divers come to take the plunge. Silfra is a fissure, or crack, in the earth that formed in 1789 and separates the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates. The glacial fed waters come from the nearby Langjokull Glacier and contribute to a less than 2 cm movement of the plates annually.

Would you take the frigid dive between two continents??