SMS Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe is Scapa's teaching wreck and none the worse for it. Lying in the mid-twenties and heavily worked by past salvage, she has opened up into a readable cross-section of a WWI light cruiser: bow guns still recognizable, capstans and armored control tower among the debris, deck planking traces, and machinery spaces yawning where plating has gone. The extra light at this depth lets the marine growth show its colors — plumose anemones, sponges and shoals of juvenile fish — and gives photographers their best ambient conditions of the fleet. An ideal shakedown before the battleships.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Readable cruiser layout, best light of the German wrecks, gentle depths for long dives

التضاريس: A light cruiser lying on her starboard side, well broken down, in about 25–27 m

نقطة الدخول: The shallowest of the German warships and usually the first dived on a Scapa week.

المخاطر: Sharp, unstable wreckage and monofilament snags; silt lifts easily inside the broken sections.

الحفاظ على البيئة البحرية: Scheduled monument; artifacts stay where they lie.

نيتروكس: يستحق هنا — تقع البروفايلات في النطاق الذي يمدّد فيه النيتروكس وقت التوقف اللاإلزامي بشكل ملموس (بشرط امتلاك التدريب اللازم لاستخدامه).