Waterproof Expeditions offers in co-operation with the Arctic Circle Dive Centre an ice diving programme every year from February to April.
Diving is performed with safety ropes according to PADI standards using experienced instructors and dive guides, and includes 2 dives per day and diver transport to diving sites by snowmobile.

A mobile diving camp is set up on diving sites. Wooden cabins on sledges provide shelter for changing, for drying of equipment and include a common room module for lunch and socializing. A heated wooden shelter is placed just over the ice-hole (maina) for those who prefer a heated space between dives.

Following programme is for your guidance. Excursions and dive courses on request. We can assist you with your travel schedule, transfers, accommodation and diving at the Arctic Lodge.
We also offer summer diving and special photography expeditions to the Arctic Lodge. Please contact us for further details info@waterproof-expeditions.com

Arrival at the Arctic Circle Lodge.
First we will do a check dive and in the afternoon we dive a slope near Maly Krestovy (Small Cross) Island. Kelp forests, crabs and starfish. In the evening we have our first experience with a Russian banya and rest.

Ice diving programme – 2 dives per day for qualified ice divers. We will be diving at a a legendary cliff with sea anemones near the Krestovy (Cross) Islands, diving by a bank with soft corals and wreck diving on a wooden fishing boat and steel scientific boat.
There will be a lecture programme on White Sea biology and conservation programmes.
Other activities include snowmobile rides with the mobile ice camp, snorkelling with belugas, seabirds and seals watching, ice-fishing and Russian steam bath experience.

Following the completion of the programme, at 23:30: departure from the Dive Centre for Chupa train station, Murmansk or Kuusamo Airport. Return to Moscow (the train arrives in Moscow on the following day). The programme can be changed depending to the ice and weather condition.

Alternatively the opportunity to take the ice diving specialty course conducted over the first 2 days of the programme.