I received the following from Selwyn Williams, just goes to show you don’t always have to get wet to touch maritime history. In 1982 I bought the rights to the Chesil Beach wreck of the Piedmont that we had found. She was a ship hired as a troop transport by the Transport Board in 1795 … Read Article
Not as flukey as it might sound (get it) the anchorage around Portland Harbour is packed full of maritime history from the Civil war to the Cold war, check this out
If we find aircraft remains the first thing on our minds is who was the pilot, did he survive or did he go down with the plane? Here we have the reverse situation in that we know of a pilot with an improbable background but where is his downed ME109? Talk about unlucky he managed … Read Article
Dorset waters are the final resting place for many a brave pilot. It doesn’t matter to me if they are British, German, American or any other they were all young men doomed by those days of madness. The official line is that aircraft wreck sites are protected by the Protection Of Military Remains Act and … Read Article
3D photography and us have moved on in leaps and bounds since we first found this wreck in 2010. Named the Brandy wreck because the first thing diver Andy saw was a brandy bottle it is quite possible this site dates from the English Civil War period. Pictured is our good friend the late Andy … Read Article
The BBC featured our P47 story which we are still working on after many years in the hope of finding out who the pilot was.Full report here
A great week’s diving. We dived some junk, we dived some real pieces of history and found ourselves in places no one has been before. We answered a few questions and closed the book on a couple of sites as well as opening the book and creating a new list of questions on another. We … Read Article
Great weekend to be out with Deeper Dorset and as most times when we came back between the piers each day we knew more than when we went out. For now we have to be a little quiet about the project we are working on as it will be the subject of a book and … Read Article
The Caroline of Leigh was a Moody yacht that disappeared with four crew in December 1979. Nearly forty years later her remains still lie on the seabed south of Lulworth. Deeper Dorset are involved in a project that may even after all this time shed some more light on what happened that day. This video … Read Article