Welshpool diver dies while exploring wrecks
A diver from Powys has died while exploring underwater wrecks. A diver from Powys has died while exploring underwater wrecks. Timothy Robin Slocombe was pulled, apparently unconscious, from the waters of the Scapa Flow, off the coast of Orkney, on Sunday. The 61-year-old, from Welshpool, had dived from the Triton diving vessel to explore the wrecks on the lagoon's bed, but failed to return to the surface. He was pronounced dead by a medical team who met the boat on Orkney. Read the full story in today's Shropshire Star
Timothy Robin Slocombe was pulled, apparently unconscious, from the waters of the Scapa Flow, off the coast of Orkney, on Sunday.
The 61-year-old, from Welshpool, had dived from the Triton diving vessel to explore the wrecks on the lagoon's bed, but failed to return to the surface.
He was pronounced dead by a medical team who met the boat on Orkney.
A post-mortem is due to be carried out and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.
The lagoon of the Scapa Flow is popular with divers because of the amount of naval wrecks hidden beneath its waters.
It was the main anchorage of the British Royal Navy, and many many relics of British naval history remain.
In June 1919, the interned German navy scuttled most of its High Seas Fleet there to prevent them from falling into Allied hands, and eight of the vessels also remain there.
