There are a wealth of shipwrecks around the coastline of the UK reflecting the country's long and storied naval history and its often treacherous coastline. Many of these shipwrecks are now popular dive sites, with shipwrecks in and around Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands being particularly famous and well-visited. I won't repeat the history of the Scapa Flow wrecks here: other people have done far better work on that front than I can do, and so I'll leave a link here to www.scapaflowwrecks.com if you would like to do more of a historical deep-dive into any of the Orcadian wrecks photographed here. I will say that none of the shipwrecks that we have dived on sank with any casualties - they were either deliberately sunk (e.g., the scuttled WW1 German fleet, or the defensive blockships) or sank accidentally but without loss of life. 

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The photos here are mostly taken with natural or off-camera light (dive lights) mostly because I really like the sense of scale it gives for each of the wrecks. I'm also not a marine archaeologist by any means, so if you spot anything I've misidentified or just plain missed, please let me know and I'll update the descriptions. All these photos were taken between around 2010 and 2014 before I moved to the US, so please be aware that the condition of the wrecks may have changed since then.