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Diving in United Kingdom (UK) waters is a challenge. Cold water and fast-changing weather patterns are to be expected together with varying degrees of underwater visibility and wildly fluctuating tidal diving windows. Nevertheless, diving is very popular and there are approximately one hundred and twenty thousand active divers in the UK (UK CEED, 2000). British waters are not short of attractions for divers. Gray skies overhead hint little of rich marine habitats underwater (Gubbay, 1988). British seas also conceal the secrets of an island nation, until recently dependent on sea transport for survival. Current estimates suggest that between four thousand and sixty-five hundred wrecks exist around the coast of Scotland, though the work of private researchers suggests that as many as twenty thousand maritime casualties have occurred since the mid-eighteenth century (Oxley, 2001).
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Robertson, P. (2003). The Visitor Schemes on the Historic Shipwrecks of the Swan and HMS Dartmouth, Sound of Mull, Scotland (UK). In: Spirek, J.D., Scott-Ireton, D.A. (eds) Submerged Cultural Resource Management. The Plenum Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0069-8_7
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