Kullaberg and Northwest Skane

Before Entry

• Verify both official reserve seasonal exclusion maps, especially from 1 March through 15 July, and comply with any signed local restriction.
• Check wind and marine forecasts, currents, visibility and wave exposure on the intended shore; choose a nearby alternative or cancel if conditions exceed skills.
• Brief a buddy, shore contact, return time, suitable surface marker and emergency plan. Follow boat skipper and operator briefings when using Rode Orm.
• Treat Ransvik as comparatively easier, not automatically safe for beginners; Ablahamn and Josefinelust have heavy-gear stairs and difficult rocky exits.
• Do not enter caves, overhead spaces, wrecks, old fishing structures or deeper sites without specific training and authorization. Keep clear of nets and boating corridors.

Cold-water, Freedive and Post-dive Constraints

• Fit thermal exposure protection correctly and know emergency procedures for cold stress. Drysuits require skill-based training.
• Freedivers should follow one-up-one-down procedures with a rescue-trained buddy and never deliberately hyperventilate. No commercial local depth-safety provider was verified.
• DAN guidance suggests at least 12 hours before flying after a single no-decompression dive, at least 18 hours after multiple/repetitive no-decompression dives and substantially longer after required decompression. These are minimum recommendations, not a guarantee; conservatively allow extra time.

For suspected decompression illness, serious head trauma, drowning or a vessel emergency, call 112 immediately and give your location, entry bay, number of divers and surface/underwater status. The emergency dispatcher coordinates ambulance and rescue and determines where recompression treatment should occur. Do not assume that the nearest general hospital contains a hyperbaric chamber. The 1177 registry confirms a 24-hour emergency department at Helsingborg hospital, Karolina Widerstroms gata 12; it is a general emergency-care reference, not a destination-specific chamber confirmation. For urgent dive injury, ask responders about emergency oxygen and professional assessment rather than self-transporting to a presumed treatment site.

Kullaberg comprises eastern and western nature reserves and Natura 2000 protection. The authority's full regulations prohibit intentionally disturbing wildlife, collecting attached marine plants and benthic animals, placing structures on the seabed, and damaging or taking older wreck material. Marine restrictions extend from the shoreline into the protected nearshore water described by the authority; do not convert that broad statement into a recreational access permission. Two official maps show mandatory people-and-vessel exclusions each 1 March-15 July, including nearshore waters. Do not enter these zones by snorkel, scuba, kayak or RIB. Keep dogs on a lead, fires in approved locations and camping limited to authorized places. Watch porpoises without pursuit, contact or promised close encounters. Avoid disturbing seabed and nesting birds for photographs.