BOOKS and DVD'S

A Photographic Guide to the Sea & Shore Life Of Britain & North West Europe

This new concept field guide aims to promote interest in wildlife while encouraging its conservation - showing how identifications can be made without interfering with the organisms in any way.

 

Features Include ~

Illustrations & text related to each plant or animal conveniently presented together & in full colour

Text designed to facilitate identification & avoid confusion between similar species

Introductory sections describe principal features of each taxonomic group.

BRITISH SEA FISH ~ Dr Frances Dipper

If you are a diver, snorkeller, sports fisherman, seashore enthusiast, or are in any way interested in the natural history of Britain's marine wildlfie, this book is for you. It is devoted entirely to the fish found around the coasts of the British Isles, and most of the 100 + species described are illustrated with couloured photgraphs of the fish in their natural habitat.

BRITISH SEA LIFE DVD

A journey inot the underwater world exploring the lives and behaviours of teh sea life around the british Isles.

Includes 15 page full colour quick identification guide.

3 Hours of footage covering over 170 species

Running time 176 mins aprox

DIVERS GUIDE TO THE WRECK SITES IN THE ORKNEY ISLES ~ Robert Swanney

This lovely hand drawn & written guide by local Orkney dive-boat skipper, gives a detailed discription of how many of the wrecks in Scapa Flow and surrounding Orkney waters , where they are located & which way they are lying on the sea--bed giving depths & co-ordinates, also sketches of the land marks to help locate many of the wrecks. 

GREAT BRITISH MARINE ANIMALS 2nd edition ~ Paul Naylor

From the majestic basking shark, the second larges fish in the world, to the tiny but dazzlingly colourful jewel anemone, a spectacular array of animals live in Britsh costal waters. Just as impressive as their wide-ranging sizes, forms and colours, are the amazing ways they get food, defend themselves abd produce their young.

Great British Marine Animals will open your eyes to the beautiful and extraordinary creatures that inhabit the sea around us. Photographs are used both to aid identification of the common animals and to show how they go about their lives. the book is written for anyoone who loves the sea or is fascinated by wildlife, including snorkellers and divers.

HMS ROYAL OAK (DVD)

On the night of Friday 13th October 1939, German U Boat Commander Gunther Prien penetrated the British Navy's main snchorage at Scapa Flow and sank HMS Roay Oak, 833 men lost their lives in one of the worst tragedies in British Naval history.

The wreck of HMS Royal Oak is a designated war grave and all diving is prohibited but a special permission was granted by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Navy for the wreck to be filmed as a moving tribute to all those who lost their lives.

This video includes iuderwater images of the wreck which have never been seen before and there are interviews with survivors and Ocadian Sandy Robertson who was the first diver to go on the wreck the day after she sank. Also included is the coverage of another unique event when the ashes of Dorothy Golding, wife of Bandsman Arthur Golding, who went down with the ship, were taken down by her grandson, Christopher Kilford, and placed  in the wreck to reunite the couple once again.

 

SCAPA FLOW DIVE GUIDE ~ Lawson Wood

The best selling guide to Scapa Flow has now been updated. This expanded 2nd edition now includes more wreck details, photographs, and a completely new section on aeroplane wrecks.

If you are looking for a comprehensive up-to-date guide to Scapa Flow, this book is a must to have

SCAPA FLOW FROM GRAVEYARD TO RESURRECTION

The original account of the greatest scuttling in naval history by the commander of the interned Imperial German Fleet, Vice Admiral Ludwig von Reuter with an introductory narrative and concluding story on the boldest slvage of our time.

SHIP WRECKS OF THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND By R N Baird

This meticulously researched book is a refernce guide to shipping losses off the coast of Scotland form stonehaven northwards to Duncansby Head, Cape Wrath, The Minch, Orkney & Shetland

THE GRAND SCUTTLE ~ Dan Van Der Vat

One of the most remarkable events in naval history occurred on 21 June 1919 at Scapa Flow, Orkney. As a result of a misleading report in a British newspaper. The German High Seas Fleet was deliberately scuttled by its own commander. Although the Royal Navy guessed Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter's intention, they could do nothing to prevent him, and some of the finest ships ever built sank to their grave beneath the cold Orcadian waters.

This classic account, which has sold well over 10,000 copies to date, continues previously unused German archive material, eye-witness accounts and numerous contemporary photographs to place the Grand Scuttle in its hisorical context and recreate the awesome spectacle as it unfolded that extraordinalry midsummer day.

THE MAN WHO BOUGHT A NAVY ~ Gerald Bowman

Pieced together after much research and told for the first time in this biography is the astonishing story of what is regarded as the greates achievement in the history of marine salvage - the raising of the German fleet at Scapa Flow.

When the Germans sank their surrendered navy at Scapa Flow after the First World War, top salvage experts were agreed that the work of recovering the ships was a near-impossibility.

Engineer Ernest Cox was the one man who defied their prediction. In 1924 he decided to buy the scuttled fleet from the Admiralty, gambling his entire personal fortune on the colossal task of raising the German ships. Cox was a natural-born engineering genius, and though he has never before salvaged even a rowing boat, the fanatical energy and tireless concentration with which he worked during the next eight years achieved staggering results.