Rod Macdonald's video: Diving the wreck of SMS Konig - battleship Scapa Flow

SMS Konig, was the lead dreadnought of the Konig-class of 4 battleships constructed by Germany in the lead up to WWI. As the latest evolution of the battleship concept, they were the newest and toughest dreadnoughts, and as such were placed in the vanguard of the Imperial German Navy High Seas Fleet at engagements such as the Battle of Jutland in 1916 where they traded heavy blows with the battleships of the British Grand Fleet. At the end of WWI, as a condition of the November 1918 Armistice , 74 of the finest German ships were to be interned at Scapa Flow. Seven months later, as it appeared that the Armistice was in danger of breaking down and the hostilities recommence, with its guns disarmed and manned only by skeleton crews, the entire fleet was scuttled on a pre-arranged coded order on 21 June 1919 in the greatest single act of maritime suicide the world has eve seen. Today, three Konig's lie on the bottom of Scapa Flow in 38-45msw. This video shows some of the Konig, a massive 25,000-ton dreadnought that is 575 feet long.