Wreck diving in Scapa Flow

Written by Jakob Jelling


Divers who enjoy visiting wrecks might find in Scapa Flowrepparttar best place where to spend a vacation. This diving destination is located in northern Scotland, on Orkey Island, and receives visitors fromrepparttar 132866 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 ofrepparttar 132867 most famous wreck diving places ofrepparttar 132868 world, widely known byrepparttar 132869 sunken battle ships it has. Together withrepparttar 132870 Truck Lagoon of Micronesia, they containrepparttar 132871 biggest amount of war wrecks and sunken battle ships ofrepparttar 132872 world. Both this destinations arerepparttar 132873 main places which expert wreck divers wish to meet.

One ofrepparttar 132874 Scapa Flow's main attractions isrepparttar 132875 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 intorepparttar 132876 water depths allowing visitors to have a close encounter with history.

Among others ofrepparttar 132877 most important wrecks which divers would find in Scapa Flow we can findrepparttar 132878 battleship Markgraf,repparttar 132879 Konig,repparttar 132880 Karlsruhe,repparttar 132881 Brummer andrepparttar 132882 Kronprinz Wilhem. These famous battleships are in depths which range between 24 and 45 meters intorepparttar 132883 water.

Big air equals big thrills with this new extreme water sport

Written 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 forgetrepparttar boat and add a giant kite forrepparttar 132865 power source. The kite is controlled or steered using a control bar inrepparttar 132866 hands ofrepparttar 132867 rider. The kite can be flown is specific patterns to generate greater power, or can be used to jump or fly throughrepparttar 132868 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 takesrepparttar 132869 load offrepparttar 132870 arms which helps reduce fatigue. Kiteboarding isrepparttar 132871 fastest growing water sport inrepparttar 132872 world, and for good reasons.

The freedom of jumping 10, 20, 30ft offrepparttar 132873 water, withoutrepparttar 132874 necessity of a wave for a ramp, means that people who live near lakes can still fly throughrepparttar 132875 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, andrepparttar 132876 gear fits in a economy car, instead ofrepparttar 132877 truck, or trailer. Surfers can get out onrepparttar 132878 water whenrepparttar 132879 surf is too low or blown out. Wake boarders are forced to rethink what big air really is, plus saving allrepparttar 132880 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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