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This spring 11 divers from Peterborough Sub-Aqua Club crammed into four cars and took a road trip 430 miles north, converging on Lochaline on the Sound of Mull for a weekend of diving among some of western Scotland's finest...
UK-Kirkwall: upgrading services of ships SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY I.1) NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S): Address: Organisation: Orkney Islands Council, Council Offices, School Place Internet address(es): General...
Published Date: 01 October 2009 HISTORIC shipwrecks that have been out of bounds to divers are to be opened up for the first time. Currently it is illegal for scuba divers to visit eight protected sites – such as the HMS...
THE PRINCESS Royal will be visiting Orkney on October 14, when she will pay her respects over the wreck of HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow on the 70th anniversary of the ship's sinking. While in Orkney the Princess Royal will...
IN the second diving incident in Scapa Flow in two days, a 53-year-old diver was taken ashore into Houton by the Orkney Marine Services launch Scapa Pathfinder earlier today. The diver had been diving in Gutter Sound at the...
A church built by Italian prisoners of war in Orkney is an extraordinary testament to the power of the human spirit The Italian chapel on Orkney is one of the greatest icons of hope and peace to come out of the second world...
Routine maintenance of the barges is being carried out. The cliffs behind the barges are well over 1km away and the grey and white buildings, centre-left, are over 3km away. Is that Auskerry in the background?
Published Date: 14 September 2009 Thirty years ago Orkney was one of the least known, but best sea trout fisheries in these islands. But quite soon we are likely to discover again that if you start sticking fish farms full of...
As former comrades have passed away, history has closed in on Claude Choules, the 108-year-old who is now Britain's last witness to combat in World War I. Claude resides on the other side of the world in a nursing home in the...
