USS LST-496 and 523
US National Archives Photo # 80-G-252172
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2023-05-10
GAD8
GAD8 is a designated Protected Wreck Site lying off the East Kent coast near Deal. It contains the scattered remains of an armed wooden sailing vessel dating from roughly 1650…
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2022-07-20
Two Tugs
HMS ISIS with HMS Duncan in the background- Imperial War Museum Southsea Sub-Aqua Club’s 2019 expedition project ‘Two Tugs’ continues our desire to learn more about the WW2 Allied invasion…
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2019-12-13
Ship, Rock, Selsey
The waters around Selsey Bill, West Sussex, have long been a hazardous place for sailors and from Roman times to modern day, many vessels have been lost in passing this…
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2019-05-16
No Roses on a Sailor’s Grave
This project centres on the loss of a particular vessel during the Normandy operations, a British Landing Craft (Headquarters) sank on 25 June 1944 after a striking a mine. Royal Navy…
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2018-12-16
Project CATO
USS Revenge (AM-110), an Auk class minesweeper of World War II. The project centres on a British minesweeper HMS Cato (J16), sunk off the Normandy beaches on D-Day. HMS Cato (J16) was…
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2018-11-14
Project Cardonnet
Project Cardonnet aims to investigate and record the WW2 Operation NEPTUNE wrecks of the Banc du Cardonnet, located in the Baie de Seine, Normandy. This ambitious project investigated two wrecks…
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2017-12-16
Mulberry 70
In the years leading up to 2015, divers from Southsea Sub-Aqua Club (SSAC) completed three projects to investigate, dive and record wrecks along the South Coast of England that played…
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2015-05-18
Normandy 70
Normandy 70 is an expedition by Southsea Sub-Aqua Club to dive and record wrecks of associated with the maritime phase of WW2 Allied invasion of Normandy otherwise known as Operation…
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2015-04-18
What Lies Beneath?
What Lies Beneath? was an ambitious BSAC Southern Region initiative designed to encourage branches to explore, investigate and record unknown underwater sites along the South Coast. Rather than a traditional…
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2014-05-19