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Dive Scapa Flow (Paperback)
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Dive Scapa Flow (Paperback)
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Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled
wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving
locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition
is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the scuttle
of the 74 warships of the interned German High Seas Fleet at Scapa
Flow on 21st June 1919 - the greatest act of maritime suicide the
world has ever seen. The dark depths of Scapa Flow conceal the
remains of several of the Kaiser's WWI High Seas Fleet. Three
massive 575 feet long 26,000-ton Konig-class battleships await
exploration - huge underwater mountains where divers can see the
last 12-inch big guns to have fired at British warships at the
Battle of Jutland in 1916; or drift along rows of 5.9-inch
secondary battery casemate guns and see massive masts and heavily
armoured spotting tops. Four 5,000-ton, 500 foot long, kleiner
kreuzers, Brummer, Coln, Dresden and Karlsruhe lie on their beam
ends open for inspection with parts that remained on the seabed of
many other High Seas Fleet vessels as they themselves were lifted
to the surface during the greatest feat of underwater salvage that
has ever taken place. Add in a U-boat, a boom defence vessel, an
Icelandic trawler, a number of drifters, WWII vessels, many
'blockships' intentionally sunk to block the smaller channels into
Scapa Flow during WWI and WWII and it becomes apparent what Scapa
Flow offers divers. Scapa Flow's war graves, HMS Royal Oak,
torpedoed at the beginning of WWII and HMS Vanguard, which blew up
in a catastrophic magazine explosion in 1917 and HMS Hampshire,
which struck a German mine and sunk on 5th June 1916 north-west of
Orkney carrying Lord Kitchener and his staff on a secret diplomatic
mission to Russia, are off limits to divers today - but their
stories are recounted to preserve the memory of those that
perished.
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