Scapa Flow charters

[Rich1280]

Hi All:

Looking for a budget to do the WWI wrecks. Coming from Canada. Any SCUBA Shops or Travel Agencies there do this?

Bruce

Afternoon,

Depending when you're fancying, most of the charter boars have their prices on the website. I use Bob on Clasina, its a big open dive deck and the briefings are good.

2026 Booking – Halton Charters

For '26 in Scapa he's doing £180 per diving day, so get on the boat Saturday afternoon, eat in Stromness, fed and diving Sunday to Friday, get off the boat Saturday morning not fed. Total £1080. I plan for about £200-250 for the week in boat snacks from Tesco, beer and meals both Saturdays. Air is included, sofnolime, O2 an He prices vary by season but current prices will be on his website, but typically I'd use about £50 in He and O2 on CCR. Bob has cylinders and lead, same as most UK boats I think, but you'd need to bring or sort the rest elsewhere.

Travel would be what's easiest into the UK and on to Orkney. I've organised trips with people flying in, some fly to London and hire a car and drive, others to Glasgow and drive, a few fly all the way to Kirkwall with the various connections. Depends on what you have time wise and connections wise, but Glasgow often seems the best balance.

Hope that helps,
Rich

 

[DiveLikeAMuppet]

I'm not so sure about that previous view of club trips, yes there are some that will dumb down the trip to air/open water/AOD depths making it a pain for CCR divers but Scapa can be pretty much multi-depth on most of the iconic wrecks and its mostly advanced/Dive Leader type diving so less likely to be a problem. Plus its an expensive trip so going on air and a single is a major missed oppertunity (and plain risky).

My experience is limited to three Scapa trips, so anecdotal. On two of those trips, we had people either on single cylinders or doing limited deco, which means that you cannot really dive Bayern turrets as an example or dive Markgraf twice on the same day. Because when you take the risk of booking a charter, you need to fill it. Depends on your preferences - on another trip we mostly dived the battleships which was lovely. Doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy the trip but it’s limiting.

A friend of mine had the air-diving club.

 

[johnohuk]

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True, two dives a day on the turrets/Markgraf is definitely ccr territory. Those two are just amazing dives..