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Scuba Diving: Scapa Flow Shipwrecks: Konig: Submerged Productions |
 | | I knew that the Konig was going to be a large wreck, but even so I as completely unprepared for the sheer enormity of this vessel and for the way it seems to project its personality, lying there on its side like some stricken dinosaur from another age. |
 | | In places her armour plating was 14 inches thick and she had the ability to withstand huge amounts of shell and torpedo damage because of a sophisticated damage control system which enabled massive amounts of water to either flood complete compartments such as magazines, or totally drain compartments badly holed and taking in water. |
 | | For the Konig and the rest of her kind, oblivion came on the 21st June 1919 when at Scapa Flow they pulled out the seacocks and deliberately sunk one of the mightiest battlefleets the world had ever seen. |
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