Wreck Diver Surveys Scotland’s Famous Wrecks
Rhonda Moniz
January 13, 2013
Rod Macdonald a well-known diver in Scotland has surveyed and researched the country’s most famous shipwrecks. He has surveyed and researched 25 lying in Scottish waters for his new book, Great British Shipwrecks. Macdonald started with the famous shipwrecks of the Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. He also included the WWI British cruiser HMS Hampshire in the survey, which rests in over 200 feet of water off Marwick Head, north west of Orkney. Other ships included in the survey were Thesis, Hispania and Shuna, and cargo ship Rondo in the Sound of Mull. The Dutch steamship SS Breda, lost near Oban in 1940, and the WWII minelayer HMS Port Napier off Skye were also included. Macdonald then went on to explore the remains of HMS Pathfinder, the first Royal Naval warship sunk by a U-boat in WWI.