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Going beyond 3D photogrammetry, we also planned to render the whole wreck on a 1:1 aspect ratio, that is at full size, in virtual reality. By putting on VR goggles, viewers would be immersed in the water, standing or floating beside a life-size image of the wreck. The wreck would tower some 50 feet above you from the seabed. Our plans were nothing if not ambitious.

In addition to photogrammetry and VR, hundreds of high-resolution underwater photographs would be taken and we would blitz the wreck with video cameras, getting as much imagery as we could of this never-to-be-repeated opportunity. We expected that some 100 hours of video footage on the wreck would be taken.

As we began to get going, sorting out the full logistics of the expedition, we began to get a distinct feeling that we were representing our sport, and that the expedition and our results would be closely studied from a number of angles. We believed that with our technical diving abilities and the underwater visualisation techniques we were employing, if we did a good job, the military authorities might realise just how good modern diving and underwater imaging techniques were. We hoped to bring results that the military themselves could not achieve – believing that this might open a door for better cooperation between military authorities and civilian divers on other projects.