Just back from Scapa Flow August 13, 2006
Posted by Mark Gilmour in : UK diving, Wreck Diving , trackbackGot back from Scapa flow at 4am this morning having left Scrabster at 2pm yesterday afternoon. It was a very good week, if very different from the same trip last year. As last year we had booked a 7 day liveaboard on MV invincible, as the boat and Skipper are excellent and this proved to be a real bonus this week. The weather and the visibility was not as kind to us as last year, with the peak of the weather being on Wednesday with force 7/8 winds gusting to 50mph, but due to the nature of the flow and the boat we were on and the Skipper at the helm, we were able to dive every day.
We had a very eventful week and the diving was at times challenging but I thoroughly enjoyed it. As I sort out the individual dive reports I think it worthwhile to direct you to a thread on Yorkshire Divers where Garf, one of those on our trip has posted a very frank and thorough review of his very eventful dive on the Markgarf, one of the battleships resting upside down in 46m. His report highlights the dangers and hazards of wreck diving in the very dark UK conditions and I think is vital reading.
http://www.yorkshire-divers.com/forums/trip-reports/42362-trapped-alone-45m-fun-fun-fun.html
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