Scapa? Where is that then? Well, head north, then north some more, and then maybe some more north. Ok, so thats not actually that helpfull is it? :D
Scapa Flow is one of the jewels in the crown of UK diving. The remains of the German fleet, scuttled in the closing days of WW1 now lie entombed in the icy depths of the flow. Their legacy is some of the best diving in the world, the behemoths of the battleships rising from 45m to 22m, guns pointing skywards, on eternal patrol.
St Abbs is one of the top diving sites in the UK, offering fantastic shore and boat diving, everything from tunnels, archways, gulleys, wrecks and fantastic wildlife. It remains one of my favourite places to dive.
Struggling against the slight swell as it washes over the barnacle encrusted rocks, we spot the opening. Wordlessley we drop into the black foreboding slit, into the darkness which is Tye’s Tunnel.
Our torchbeams illuminate the smooth rock walls as we drop through the shaft and then into the tunnel which runs through the huge splinter of rock. Smooth stones, worn by an eternity of pounding winter seas litter the bottom. We follow the path of the cave, green shafts of light showing us the way out. Mirror drops of exhaled gas, flow like mercury on the stone ceiling, the only legacy of our passing.
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