Shown above on the damaged propshaft of HMS Prince of Wales
John Thornton
"The Skipper"
John is an IANTD Trimix & Nitrox Instructor on both OC and CCR, he also holds a HSE Commercial Diving Ticket and a DTI Approved Skippers Ticket.
With over twenty five years experience both skippering and diving, John is the most experienced and highly qualified skippers working in Scapa Flow. He was one of the first skippers to offer dive charters in the area and has progressively moved on to larger, better equiped boats.
John took part in Project Britannic in Greece in November 97 and has lead several expeds since including HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales and recently to Java Sea to dive the lost cruisers of the battle of the Java sea of 1942
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