SMS Markgraf
La profondeur indique la plage entre le sommet du site et son maximum habituel ; le « niveau de certification recommandé » correspond au niveau généralement demandé par les opérateurs selon les agences grand public, et non à une règle légale. Les courants et la visibilité varient chaque jour — considérez toutes ces informations comme des estimations de planification.
Markgraf fought at Jutland and now lies almost fully inverted in the deepest water of the German fleet, her upturned hull rising from around 45 m to the mid-twenties. The scale registers slowly: a wall of riveted plate longer than a football pitch, rudders raised toward the light, and along the port side the crushed gallery where casemate guns and portholes emerge from the shadows. This is a dive of atmosphere rather than easy sightseeing — dark, deep and unforgiving of poor planning — and for many wreck divers it is the single best thing in British waters.
Le moment pour lequel vous venez: Dreadnought scale in the gloom, casemate guns along the hull side, the fleet's most prestigious tick
Topographie: A Konig-class battleship lying nearly upside down on a silt-and-shell seabed at about 45 m
Entrée: Shotline descent from Stromness charter boats; the deepest and most demanding of the German fleet.
À savoir avant de plonger
Dangers: Depth, darkness, silt and inverted orientation that disorients; penetration is a technical-team undertaking only.
Conservation: A scheduled monument: nothing is removed, nothing disturbed. A century of salvage history already scars the fleet — divers should not add to it.
Nitrox: Intéressant ici — les profils se situent dans la plage où le nitrox prolonge significativement le temps sans palier (avec la formation pour l'utiliser).
Pour les photographes
Grand angle: ★★★★☆ · Macro: ★★☆☆☆ — note 1–5 des éditeurs sur ce que ce site offre à chaque style de prise de vue