Johns Diving Charters and scapaflow.com

Johns Diving Charters and scapaflow.com Dive charters to NORWAY, SCAPAFLOW, AND ORKNEY ISLANDS. MV KARIN, A live aboard vessel is the only w

Live on board cruise wreck diving holidays in Scapaflow, the Orkney Islands and Norway.

10/03/2024

What a good day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

26/12/2019

Crew and lunch cook on liveaboard five boat

10/05/2018

Shetland trips 2019
Orkney to shetland July 6-13
Rec trip shetland July 13-20
Gas trip shetland July 20-27
Shetland to Orkney July 27 -aug 3

Cost is £600 per diver
Contact me if interested

Orcas and Karin
08/05/2018

Orcas and Karin

01/02/2018

Oh, and a dedicated phone/tablet charging station for 16 phone/tablets (I think) to free up sockets for other use, should go down well.

01/02/2018

Various improvements going on this winter, new thermostatic shower in the blue shower, new flush water storage tanks going on engine room (major hassle this one!!) Air storage banks tested and refurbed etc etc.
Oh what fun!!

27/01/2018

Got some discounted spaces for April 21-28, contact me if interested

27/11/2017

Historic Scotland would like you all to fill in a survey and I would also ask that you do so

My thoughts are that the protection of the wrecks since 2002 has achieved nothing apart from some post cards recovered from the Carlsruhe in shallow water that didn’t limit the commercial dive team by depth.
The wrecks are deteriorating and nothing is or can be done to stop this .

Do they have a system of conservation of the wrecks?

Do they have a system of recovery of important maritime artefacts that are non structural?
If so is it severely limited by equipment required, cost and depth?

Are most of the wrecks beyond HS’s commercial dive team working depths, so recovery by these teams is impossible?

I therefore don’t think that any extension of this protection would benefit anyone apart from a very few.

I think we should establish, before these sites completely fall to bits, a system of controlled recovery of any artefacts, non structural, that are sighted, my great, great grand children might then be able to see them instead of them disappearing into Scapaflow mud forever.

In 2008 the bugle of Markgraf was sighted and we requested permission from HS (Historic Scotland) to picture/video its location, recover it and preserve it at our cost, on their guidelines.
We were point blank refused by HS.
A year later the diver who located it returned to find that a bulkhead collapse has buried the artefact forever.
This cannot be correct and responsible behaviour for our future generations!

So follow the link and fill out the form, if you agree with me then outline your thoughts, if you think differently then still fill it in.
If you don’t then you will for sure see more pointless, destructive “protection” put in place

Historicenvironment.scot/scapa-flow-survey

Cheers

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