Welcome to the ScapaHistory website.

We are pleased to announce dates for weeks in 2011:

Scapa History Week:  5th - 10th June 2011 and  21st - 26th August 2011

Tucked away at the far north of Scotland, nestled in the middle of the Orkney Islands lies Scapa Flow, the final resting place for seven wrecks, the last remnants of the German High Seas Fleet.

The story of how they got there encompasses world history on an epic scale, of an escalation in sabre-rattling brinkmanship that led to the Great War.  Of human folly and pride, at the height of the race for world sea power, of economic folly on a national level and a thousand facts and figures that can swamp a visitor in their short spell here in the Flow.

With the ScapaHistory week, Halton Charters with Kieran Hatton in the driving seat aims to illustrate the background to these wrecks, and of Scapa Flow as a whole with:

• history talks through out the week
• comprehensive pre-dive briefings
• question and answer sessions
• post dive debriefs
• visits to Wee Fea and other remaining terrestrial war emplacements
• an onboard host through out the week
  

This background detail will allow you to cut through the mass of information bringing the history alive and place the wrecks in context, ensuring you reap the maximum reward from the weeks diving.

We ran the first week in July 2009 which we felt went very well with some very positive feedback. There is a trip report on Yorkshire Divers at

http://www.yorkshire-divers.com/forums/trip-reports/93265-wreck-history-week-mv-halton-bob-anderson-kieran-hatton.html