Wreck diving in Scapa FlowWritten by Jakob Jelling
Divers who enjoy visiting wrecks might find in Scapa Flow best place where to spend a vacation. This diving destination is located in northern Scotland, on Orkey Island, and receives visitors from entire world willing to dive into its waters. In order to reach this diving area, visitors must do so by air or by ferry.Scapa Flow is one of most famous wreck diving places of world, widely known by sunken battle ships it has. Together with Truck Lagoon of Micronesia, they contain biggest amount of war wrecks and sunken battle ships of world. Both this destinations are main places which expert wreck divers wish to meet. One of Scapa Flow's main attractions is sunken World War I German High Seas Fleet. This fleet, composed by 5 battle cruisers, 8 cruisers, 11 battleships and 50 destroyers, was sunken on June of 1919, and most of them still remains into water depths allowing visitors to have a close encounter with history. Among others of most important wrecks which divers would find in Scapa Flow we can find battleship Markgraf, Konig, Karlsruhe, Brummer and Kronprinz Wilhem. These famous battleships are in depths which range between 24 and 45 meters into water.
| | Big air equals big thrills with this new extreme water sportWritten by Captain Jeff Hoxtell
Kiteboarding or kitesurfing, if you don't already know, is like snowboarding on water. This, behind a boat, is called wakeboarding. OK, now forget boat and add a giant kite for power source. The kite is controlled or steered using a control bar in hands of rider. The kite can be flown is specific patterns to generate greater power, or can be used to jump or fly through air. We are not talking about little hops either; you can really get up and float for some serious air time. The power is directed to a harness by "hooking in"; this takes load off arms which helps reduce fatigue. Kiteboarding is fastest growing water sport in world, and for good reasons. The freedom of jumping 10, 20, 30ft off water, without necessity of a wave for a ramp, means that people who live near lakes can still fly through air. Snowboarders love it as a summer alternative to riding on snow, not to mention there's no lift ticket to buy. Windsurfers love it because you can kiteboard in less wind, and gear fits in a economy car, instead of truck, or trailer. Surfers can get out on water when surf is too low or blown out. Wake boarders are forced to rethink what big air really is, plus saving all gas money they were putting into their boats every weekend. People who have never tried a board sport at all are getting into kiteboarding.
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