Facts and Figures
The Prince is a trained scuba diver
In July 1975, The Prince spent 47 minutes under water examining the wreck of the Mary Rose, a Tudor warship sunk off Portsmouth in 1545: he was the first member of the Royal Family to see it since Henry VIII watched the ship sink.
It was the first of a number of dives The Prince made to the wreck, and he became President of the Mary Rose Trust which raised the remains of the ship in 1982 for preservation in a new museum at Portsmouth.
The Prince of Wales has also dived under a solid sheet of ice in Canada.