Have dived a few of those that did not make it back across the channel, out of the four that we looked at and this is over ten years back now a hawker typoon was the only one with any recognisable features, a fortress off beachy head was the last one, torn too shreds now and apart from a single engine nothing in situ though it ditched intact and the crew rowed ashore according to our guide, most of whats left laying around crumbles to dust if touched, Sea Water and airframes is not a good mixture.
I saw the remains of one of the aircraft that had been dumped of the Queensland coast. Caught in a trawler net and they bought it back. Made the TV coverage here. Extremely corroded and not a lot of use for any restoration. From memory I think it might have been a corsair.
The story I have heard here in Brisbane, Queensland is that carriers were tied up at Bretts Whalf and all sorts of stuff was loaded on them, they were taken out to the 30 fathom line and the stuff was pushed over and it was back to do it all over again.
More exciting is what was in the Archerfield (Queensland) hole, I saw oil tanks for mossies, undercarriage legs (badly corroded), 30cal and 50 cal machine guns. rubber seals in good condition. That was about 10 years ago, Most of the stuff was left there and the hole reflooded.
regards
Ross
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