Capital Ship Dive Sites
* Indicates a protected wreck - look but don't touch!

RECREATIONAL DIVES
Interesting for all skill levels, and great training dives

SMS Thuringen - Gavres, France
A WWI German dreadnought battleshipmost people don't know still exists

USS Massachusetts - Pensacola Bay, Florida
An American pre-dreadnought awash in shallow, warm water

HMS Hood - Portland Roads, England
A British pre-dreadnought that is the deepest and most challenging

Tirpitz - Tromso, Norway
The remains of the famous WWII German battleship still lie in the frozen north

TECHNICAL DIVES
Experienced divers only

SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm - Scapa Flow, Scotland
The shallowest of the three drivable battleship wrecks at Scapa Flow

SMS Koenig - Scapa Flow, Scotland
She is in the worst shape of the three sisters

SMS Markgraf - Scapa Flow, Scotland
The deepest and most intact German battleship

Admiral Graf Spee - Montevideo, Uruguay
A shallow, but very deadly wreck

IJN Nagato - Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands
Taken by the USA as a war prize and sunk in the atomic bomb tests

USS Arkansas - Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands
This WWI era US battleship was near the center of the Baker blast

USS Saratoga - Bikini Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands
(OFF SITE LINK)
This battlecruiser turned carrier is the deepest capital ship wreck at Bikini

SMS Lutzow - North Sea, off Denmark
A German battlecruiser lost at Jutland

HMS Indefatigable - North Sea, off Denmark
Not much remains of this British battlecruiser

HMS Invincible - North Sea, off Denmark
The first battlecruiser failed to live up to her name at Jutland

HMS Queen Mary - North Sea, off Denmark
The deepest of the Jutland wrecks

* HMS Repulse - South China Sea, off Malaya
Far from shore, this wreck is rarely dived

* HMS Prince of Wales - South China Sea, off Malaya
Sunk in company with Repulse, she is also rarely visited

SMS Ostfriesland - Virginia Capes, USA
Sunk as a target in 1921, this is a very deep wreck

HMS Audacious - North Sea, off Scotland
Sunk in WWI, this deep wreck is virtually undisturbed

OFF LIMITS TO DIVERS
Don't even think about it!

USS Arizona - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Her memorial is one of the most visited in the world

USS Utah - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Converted to a target ship, she was also sunk in the attack.

HMS Royal Oak - Scapa Flow, Scotland
Intact and shallow, but off limits and strictly enforced