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One of the ship’s bells was also discovered still hanging in a tangled mess of wreckage. It was lifted to the surface and was subsequently returned to the shipbuilders.

Following on from the good relations developed with the MOD and Royal Navy in relation to the Hampshire expedition, Emily Turton applied to the UK Secretary of State for Defence for a diving licence to use the same techniques to survey the Vanguard on the approach of the 100th anniversary of the sinking on 9 July 2017.

The licence was granted on terms similar to the Hampshire licence, and over the course of a preliminary one week’s diving the wreck during November 2016 and two further weeks diving during January/February 2017, Emily led a specialist team as they thoroughly surveyed and recorded the wreck with stunning atmospheric stills photography, video and 3D photogrammetry. As with the Hampshire imagery, once the photogrammetry results are ready they will be made publicly available for the common good. I was privileged to participate as a survey diver and videographer in the preliminary week of diving in November 2016.