In an impact assessment, the Västra Götaland County Administrative Board has proposed a total ban on diving in six different areas within the Swedish Marine National Park Kosterhavet and the Väderöarna Natura 2000 area. The aim is to protect the few remaining eye corals that can be found at depths of between 80 and 120 metres. However, the proposal has stirred up deep emotions.
We accompanied seal researchers from the University of Gothenburg, to Koster. In the archipelago on the Swedish west coast. Koster is one of the places where the harbor seals give birth, at the beginning of summer every year.
Six experienced underwater photographers join forces and film and photograph the unique underwater world. You visit the mythical Persgrunden and several places around Koster. Several of the divers have dived here before, but that was a long time ago
Today, it is estimated that 14 percent of Swedish waters are protected areas. However, in several protected areas, human impact such as trawling and shipping is widely allowed, and the question is how protected the protected sea is
Join the underwater photographers among plants and animals at a dive in Kosterhavet National Park
At Kosterhavet National Park, research work is underway to preserve and renew the stocks of Eye Coral
