“In 2019, I decided to quit my job as a Sergeant In the Norwegian army and travel for 6-7 months. Halfway through the trip I met a local boy on a beach in the San Blas Islands of Panama. I remember watching him swim around with a speargun and after 10 minutes he came up with a huge barracuda. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. 30 minutes later, I had already bought gear that waited for me when I got back home to Norway.

My first dive ever was the same day as I returned from my trip, the 23rd of December 2019. It was 2 degrees in the sea and a cold experience but I was instantly hooked. I knew that this is what I'm gonna do the rest of my life.”

“I think a have to choose my first ever halibut.

After a lot of unsuccessful halibut-hunts I was really, really keen to land my first one. I went on a solo shore dive in a pretty strong current a couple of hours from Tromsø. When I jumped in, the current was a bit stronger than expected (around 2-3m/s). After some time I decided to swim out of the strong current and give up. Just as I was swimming out of the current, I saw a black barn door just 3 m underneath me.

The current was too strong for me to stay above it so I took a quick duck dive, and tried to swim closer to take the shot. I swam as hard as I could, but I just got further and further away from it. I was about 6m away from it when I thought this is my last chance. So, I took a blind long shot and I was 100% sure I missed. I went to the surface and screamed of frustration. When I tried to bring the shaft back to reload I felt that it was stuck, and i got even more angry since I thought I had to cut the line since the current was too strong. In frustration I yanked the line and suddenly the line yanked back.

I have never felt such a power before in my life. It emptied 50m of line on the reel gun in 5 seconds and all I could do was to hang on. It dragged me for 2 km before I finally could get It close enough to brain it. When putting the knife in its head I clearly didn't hit the brain and it went on another run with my knife in its head. When I got It up the second time the knife was gone and I was 2km from shore with the halibut underneath me.

After struggling for a while I managed to hold the halibut close underneath me while I swam to shore. The halibut continued to swim and with a bit of steering from my part It swam us both back to shore, where I found a small boulder to unalive it.

I agree with Daniel Mann, Dive everywhere! My most memorable dives had been when I wasn't really that keen to get in. Take every opportunity you get. The best way to learn is to dive with people more experienced than you.

100% Atlantic Halibut. Just because of the pure dedication needed to find these barn doors. The feeling you get when you finally spot a giant after hours and hours of endless searching. It also helps that they are absolutely amazing eating.

It's hard to decide! But I think I have to go with great barrier reef, Australia. I lived one year in Townsville, Queensland just to spear as much as humanly possible. The biodiversity and the amount of different, tasty fish species - is was absolutely incredible. Dreaming of going back every single day!

Spearfishing has become my life. It's all I think about. Im starting up as a guide this autumn to take people out hunting halibuts in Norway, so hopefully I can start to spearfish full-time and make a living doing what I love the most.