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After their review was completed, the signed Licence Ref No C/001/2016 was sent to me, granted under Section 4 of the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986. As expedition leader, I was appointed sole licensee and authorised, subject to conditions, to conduct a visual survey of the wreck over a specified period of 30 days between 30 May 2016 and 1 August 2016. The 30-day period straddled the actual day of the 100th anniversary – 5 June 2016 – and it was made clear to us that diving operations could not be conducted on 5 June itself as there would be a Royal Navy warship above the wreck for a wreath-laying remembrance ceremony.

A number of very reasonable conditions were imposed by the licence. The team must not:

a) recover any artefacts from the wreck site

b) tamper with, damage, move, remove or unearth any human remains

c) film or photograph any human remains

d) enter any hatch or other opening in the wreck.

It was also provided that although any film or photographic material taken during the dives would remain the property of me as licensee, it could not be used for any commercial purposes without the prior approval of the licence signatory, the military authorities.