This year’s dive on the Alderney Elizabethan Wreck has concluded with a successful revisit and much tidying of the site, so that future dives will be made easier by this year’s housekeeping 30 metres below the waves.
It might not sound like a fascinating season following 2008’s excitement in bringing two cannon to the Tower of London and subsequent replication and firing for the BBC TV programme. However this year was all about maintenance and preparation for future dives.

The 2009 dive has commenced as scheduled, following bad weather.  The marker buoy has drifted but the team are on track to replace sacrificial anodes and mark out the site more clearly.

It’s going to be a short season this year, with diving in September rather than earlier in the Summer, as has been the case in past years. This is due to time pressures on people and the divers’ availability.  After all, they all have day jobs and this is their busman’s holiday.

Diving on the Alderney Elizabethan wreck