Diver Pulled into Boat's Propeller

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A diver was killed by the propeller of a passing dive boat - not the dive boat he was from - while exploring shipwrecks in Scapa Flow, off Orkney, Scotland, where the German Imperial Feet was scuttled after Germany surrendered to end the First World War.

Paul Smith and his dive buddy were surfacing near the wreck of the German battleship SMS Markgraf.

They had stopped at 10 feet after sending up a delayed deployment surface marker buoy several minutes earlier. Smith had clipped his line reel to a D-ring on his BC. The Karin, a UK-registered liveaboard dive boat, one of at least two vessels in the area, passed overhead and it appears the buoy and line became entangled in its propeller, dragging the diver up into it....

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