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Bob Anderson in the foreground and the author to the rear having a laugh during the cover shoot on a stormy day at Scapa Flow in the lee of Cava. © Bob Anderson.
You can see the cover reveal and a bit of background to the book on my YouTube channel here:
INTRODUCTION
My first book, Dive Scapa Flow, was published by Mainstream, Edinburgh, in 1990. It set the scene for diving at Scapa Flow by covering the scuttling of the 74 interned German High Seas Fleet warships there on 21 June 1919 and the subsequent momentous salvage work over the coming decades that saw the majority of those ships lifted to the surface. Three complete German World War I High Seas Fleet battleships and four cruisers were left on the bottom of the Flow. The book also covered the many other Scapa Flow wrecks, such as the blockships, World War II wrecks and more recent sinkings.
The book came out at a time when there was an absolute dearth of information about what the ships left on the bottom were like and how to dive them. It was an immediate success.