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Buy a drysuit and head for the bigger hardboats - Scapa Flow is an ideal site in mid winter - personally I prefer Karin or Jean Elaine, centrallly heated boats, in cold can always stand under the shower in your dry suit with a brew in hand - rarely get blown out, visibility tends to be better...

Hmm - we have an order for a 1.5l cylinder with them, just maybe we stand some chance of getting the refund.......

About a year or so back, diving as a 3, with one of the others relatively new, so was keeping a close ye on him, the other had around 150 dives all in cold water, and had dived the wreck before. Down the shot, it was cold, so not planning an especially long time, met the wreck at 23m or so and...

Head north to Scapa Flow - best time of year to go, dependant on which boat you choose unlikely to not get it, visibility is around 10-15m just now, and we've had the first storms already to stir it up a bit - so good I need to go back this weekend too

I'm British as well, but from totally the opposite end of the UK from Rivers. From a good dive boat, one I'll book multiple times - things I want to find are - a flat kitting up deck, ideally behind some sort of shelter deck, benches that are wide enough to kit up with twins and any stages etc...

Taken a couple of weeks ago in our winter playground. Orkney - a swim between the 2 sets of turrets of the Bayern, maximum depth around 38m, a bit more if you drop into the 2nd turret

Salutay is a fantastic boat, not the cheapest of charters but well worth the extra - take an expanding drysuit cos the food superb - think he'd probably dive some of the lesser known normandy wrecks too

Strange, never had a problem - we occasionally used to use the tea-rooms for training, largely because of the availability of the tea-rooms themselves, always in winter anyway - just don't bother going there now ( I never rated the diving there) and neither do at least 5 or 6 other clubs - if we...

other than at the tea-rooms ( which was always a rubbish dive anyway) I've never had a problem, as long as you treat the locals as you'd like to be treated yourself there's never an issue. However for the last 20 years I've lived in tourist areas, have had my driveway blocked by a camper van in...

Sssshhh!!! - It's our secret :) - big thumbs up to all those sites - plus KLB, Scourie, Scapa, Caithness, Moray Firth - seals are common enough on the north coast/Orkney/Shetland to be a pest at times - basking sharks not uncommon in the summer - we live in a huge grown up play park, the Uk's...

Yes, Browns Hostel is nice, about 150m from the harbour and tumbling distance to the local bars - last time we stayed there was about £20 pp/night - the nearest syha is Kirkwall whilst a good place to stay isn't ideal for diving the Flow

Markgraf is one of my all time favorite wrecks - once spent an entire week diving it twice a day - got lost on my final dive of the week :) - our house almost got named after it, but it sounded silly on a kit-house, so ended up naming it after the wreck of the glenisla in Lerwick instead - off...

The A9's no too bad once you get to ken it - Groats - Falkirk/Edinburgh usually takes a bit under 5 hours, as long as there's not too many camper vans in convoy, though what effect the average speed cameras they're about to put the whole way between Perth and Dunblane will have remains to be...

Scapa's one of or local sites, and all the orkney dive boat assn boats are fine enough, my favorites are Karin, Halton and Jean Elaine - all have good lifts - Karin has a flat kitting up deck which I prefer to sliding down the angled deck of the n of scotland trawler shape. Vis is usually better...