Diving the Orkney islands, UK

Resting just beyond the Northern tip of mainland Britain - with the scuttled German Fleet laying in Scapa Flow as well as many other shipping casualties, stunning underwater wildlife and scenery - Orkney has a truly unique underwater environment.

With a vast amount of individual islands, Orkney has many miles of coastline and wherever you are you will never be more than a stones throw from a great diving location. Sitting on the edge of the Atlantic Gulf Stream Orkney benefits from clean nutrient rich waters which in turn feed the diverse marine life. This vast and varied amount of marine life, combined with a huge number of wrecked ships, create one of the best cold water diving locations in the world. The diving in Orkney is probably most famous for the German Fleet of World War One which was scuttled in Scapa Flow.