Invincible we can accommodate all levels of divers from a PADI beginner, seasoned BSAC veteran or advanced IANTD Technical, we cater for all your needs so whether your a single cylinder, air diver, Nitrox/Trimix, twinset, sidemounts or even mixed gas rebreathers. The islands are situated just off the north coast of Scotland at a latitude of 59 degrees north. Invincible has an overall length of 25m which provides an extremely safe stable platform for scuba diving she is a fully equipped liveaboard, including a diver’s lift, operating out of Stromness Harbour.Īt Scapa Flow on the M.V. Scapa Flow is a stretch of water roughly 120 square miles in size, which is mostly enclosed by the southern islands of the Orkney archipelago. Scapa Flow is one of Europe’s premier wreck diving centres, the historic site of the scuttled German High Seas Fleet, where you’ll find seven large warships and four destroyers remains, which still lay waiting for you to come and explore on the sea bed. It has been used as an anchorage since Viking times, and through both world wars. It is a natural harbour providing shelter from the worst of the weather. Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would be the forbidding destination for many thousands of service personnel and civilians in both World Wars and the location of. It is a large expanse of water surrounded by the Orkney Isles. In the Scottish Highlands, a remote, sheltered stretch of water in the Orkney Islands is home to Scapa Flow, one of Britain’s most historic settings. Scapa Flow is situated on the north east coast of Scotland. For the keen photographer, there are stunning photos to be taken of the wrecks and of the sea life both above and below the water. Whether you enjoy wreck diving, drift or scenic diving. the strategic and local level landscape capacity for the siting of finfish and shellfish farms within the Scapa Flow and Wide Firth waters of Orkney. The Invincible takes divers to explore the many wrecks at Scapa Flow. Scapa Flow Museums role is to chart Orkneys military involvement in the First and Second World Wars and provide a safe home for a major collection of. Invincible, the largest of all the Orkney dive boat fleet. Kuno Eversberg was buried in the Lyness Royal Navy Cemetery, along with 12 other WWI German High Seas Fleet sailors and more than 440 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War.The home of M.V. Another sailor was suspected of having been the one who pulled the trigger. Many more would die in years to come from wounds and damage from gas.Īlthough a sailor was tried for Kuno's murder in the High Court in Edinburgh the verdict given was ‘Not Proven’. The bullet passed through him, puncturing his bowels.Įversberg died of peritonitis on 29th June, possibly the last death inflicted from World War I. Charting Orkneys involvement in the First and Second World Wars, Scapa Flow Museum is home to a vast collection of wartime artefacts.
Kuno Eversberg, along with another prisoner, was being escorted to the toilet just after midnight on the 24th June 1919 when he was shot in the lower back. Instead the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow was a deliberate act of sabotage ordered by a commander who refused to let his ships become the spoils of war. Scapa Flow is a natural harbour and diving can take place in wind conditions that would see vessels tied up in much of the rest of the country. He was murdered on board HMS Resolution in Scapa Flow after the peace treaty was agreed. It is set around the Wilhelmshaven Mutiny and the Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow at the close of the First World War. In all, 21 were injured, mostly with bayonet wounds.Ī less-talked-about story is that of the ninth German sailor who died. Scapa Flow is a 1930 German drama film directed by Leo Lasko and starring Otto Gebühr, Claire Rommer and Claus Clausen. The fleet that died by its own hand on that first summer day of 1919. One more sailor succumbed to his wounds the following day. Just a few fathoms below Scapa Flow’s dark surface lie the remains of another navy: four battleships and four light cruisers of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet, scuttled by their own crews 80 years ago this month in the largest act of self-destruction in naval history. Gunfire was heard as Royal Marines opened fire on the unarmed German crews. The Royal Navy ships rushed back, but it was too late.
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Photo courtesy of Orkney Library & Archive Chaos, confusion and murder Scapa Flows landscape holds a treasure trove of natural, archaeological and cultural interest.
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