A team of divers from Southsea Sub-Aqua Club set out to solve the mystery of how two tanks, two bulldozers and a field gun, believed to be linked to D-Day and Project Neptune, came to rest on the sea bed eight miles offshore in Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex.
The historic WW2 armoured vehicles and gun lay jumbled up on the sea bed at a depth of 20m but there was no known associated shipwreck nearby. The divers surveyed the site to establish how the equipment came to rest on the sea bed.
The project, led by Alison Mayor, had the approval of the MOD and a grant from the British Sub-Aqua Jubilee Trust.
The team behind this project won the Duke of Edinburgh’s Prize in 2009.
On 3rd June 2019 Historic England announced that the Tanks and Bulldozers would become a listed site and would now be protected for the future.
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/remembering-d-day-sites-protected
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1459802