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Scapa Flow Diving Holidays

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Company description The Dive boat M.V. Invincible operates as liveaboard or day boat, taking divers out to the historic wrecks of Scapa Flow and the Orkney Isles. We`re also keen to offer trips to Shetland, the East Coast and as far west as St Kilda.
Invincible is the largest of the Orkney Dive boat Fleet with a load line of 23.95mts and an overall length 25.5mts she is more than capable of offering pretty much all year round diving in Scapa Flow, West Coast and North Isles expeditions are very much weather dependant and seasonal.
The M.V. Invincible is certificated under category two as required by the ``Code of Practice`` and is licensed to carry up to 14 persons, 12 passengers and two crew.
Access on to Invincible is via its own gang way leading you onto its shelter deck and down the stairs on to the main deck, no scrambling up and down the pier wall ladders on this one.
The first thing that strikes you with Invincible is her sheer size and the large open deck area with it`s two large benches that run down each side of the boat and can comfortably accommodate 14 Trimix divers.
The bridge is fully equipped with all the usual and some of the most state of the art electronics including our H.P. marine P.C. with it Furno 19 inch monitor, this little baby is interfaced with the Furuno G.P.S. navigator GP-80 which runs our Sea Map chart plotter, a very impressive system. In the bridge at the chart table we also have an M.C.5 magnetometer which interfaces with the Furuno G.P. 500 very handy. Other electronics on the bridge include Icom 22 mile radar, Furuno colour video sounder, Wesmar SS390 forward looking drop sonar, ships watch, on board Nokia phone, Eagle intercom system. We also have four VHF radio set, Long Range Railor, Deburg Sailor, a Skanti and the latest all singing all dancing Furuno D.M.G.S. We also have a C.B. radio for idle chatter among skippers.
Invincible is fully centrally heated with tons of piping hot water, thanks to our Kabola diesel burner located on the bridge in the chart room.
We carry at all times, three oxygen kits, one located in the shelter deck and I have another two with me up on the bridge. And there`s always plenty of O2 onboard.
Invincible also boasts 240 volt power through out, this is provided from its three phase 15kva Mercedes generator which is hosed within the shelter deck which is our work shop and equipment storage and changing area. The galley is full equipped with gas oven, fridge freezer, microwave oven and electric toaster. To the rear of the galley is the mess area fitted with soft upholstery for comfort and large table, the galley also has a T.V. combi for breakfast T.V. or yesterday`s video of the Kronprinze.
Below deck we have the accommodation area and the bar.
Our luxury lounge bar really is quite something fully stocked with all the Orkney Ales and wide range of optics we even have the pumps and coolers, so if you want us to get a keg of Becks or anything just let us know and we`ll see what we can do. And again as with every where on Invincible there is 240 power central heating and hot and cold running water.
THE SKIPPER:
Ian is a qualified Department of Transport skipper and is licensed to cover the whole of the Orkney Isles.
He is a member of the P.B.A. the Professional Boatman`s Association, and is a member of O.D.B.O.A. the Orkney Dive Boat Operators Association.
Location description: Scapa Flow has been used as an anchorage since the days of the Vikings, and through two world wars. Situated on the north East coast of Scotland it is a large expanse of water surrounded by a ring of Islands known as the Orkney Isles. Scapa Flow is a natural harbour providing shelter to the worse of the weather, being blown out on a dive is rare, and Scapa Flow is with out doubt the finest wreck diving location in the UK.
The German fleet wrecks are great diving no doubt of that but that`s not all what Scapa is about we have scrap sites from previously salvaged ships we have block ships in shallow fast tidal waters, wrecks like the Gobernador Bories a Chilean registered steamer sunk in Burra Sound in 1915 is the one for the photographer, this wreck is just teaming with life, the large Ballen and Cuckoo Wrasse really do expect to be fed with sea urchins from visiting divers, honest if you don`t feed them they`ll bite you. The average depth of this dive is around 15 meters, and the viz well, check it out.
Some of the wrecks:
*The Kronprinz lies upturned in about 36-38m of water with her starboard decks embedded in silt and her port side open, surface to wreck can be as little as 12-14m depending on tide. The 5.9-inch casemate guns are visible on the port side, as is the mast and spotting top lying flat on the seabed. Further aft along the wreck, beneath the overhanging decks is the 12 inch gun turret, moving along the side to the front you reach the port barrel, 35 feet from the turret is the muzzle, the end of the barrel jammed into the teak deck. Looking at the muzzle, on the divers left is the starboard armament (the only visible survivors, fired at the battle of Jutland!). At the stern, the rudders still stand intact, quite a sight!
*The Koing lies almost completely upside down with her bows pointing approximately south east, gaps can still be found between her starboard decks and the seabed, but as the years pass the massive weight of her hull forces her superstructure deeper into the clay seabed. She lies in 35-38m of water, surface to hull 20-24m depending on tide, and is now the most damaged of the German wrecks lying in the Flow. Salvage by Nundy Metals has left her hull plates torn open and her insides blasted and torn out, armour has been removed as were hull plates, some parts of the ship are removed as far as the inner bulkhead, leaving ribs exposed. Diving this great ship can be somewhat confusing, much of her is blasted to a unrecognisable state and the sheer size means it is impossible to get `the full picture` in just one or two dives!

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The Dive boat M.V. Invincible operates as liveaboard or day boat, taking divers out to the historic wrecks of Scapa Flow and the Orkney Isles. Offering trips to Shetland, the East Coast and as far west as St Kilda.

Contact information:
Phone: (01856) 851110
Street Address:
Lerquoy, Outertown,
Stromness, Orkney
Scotland
United Kingdom
KW16 3JP
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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