Awards to our Underwater Photographer Tobias Dahlin

The documentary “Secrets of the West Coast” was awarded the prize for best photography and the Estonia Fund’s special prize at the Estonian nature film festival MAFF, Matsalu Nature Film Festival in Lihula, this weekend.

In addition, the film was recently named Best Nordic Nature Film at the German Green Screen festival in the town of Eckenförde on the Baltic coast.

The festival is considered the most popular nature film festival in Europe, with nearly 400 nature films on the program.

“It feels fantastic, what recognition,” says Tobias Dahlin.

Tobias is currently in Saltstraumen in northern Norway to film for upcoming nature documentaries. A fascinating natural phenomenon, the so-called Saltströmmen, will be documented above and below the surface. It is the world’s strongest tidal current and occurs when the tide moves between two fjords.

The current is 3 km long and only 150 m wide at its narrowest point. The maximum speed of the current is around 40 km per hour.

Cover photo: Sea lavender. Photo Tobias Dahlin