Hi Allison

Most of the Whitleys that went into Findhorn bay were recovered – I have the ditching reports for a lot of them. The others not mentioned in the reprots were probably also recovered! Certainly none of my spies in the area have ever found anything…

There is a ‘Sunderland’ in approx 40m off Findhorn. I wonder if it is a Whitley.

Fancy diving it for me and taking a few pics? I’ll be your pal forever…

Take care on the ups and downs

Elliott

I have found the details of a few Whitleys that went into Findhorn Bay and was wondering if they were recovered.

Ali.

Have been busy i’m afraid Allison… Can’t you use some of Tim’s toys?

Hiya

There have been a lot of dives when nothing at all was found. There’s a guy who makes the MX500 magnetometer who told me about a perfectly intact He111 just off Ipswitch and was trying to get me the position so I can have a look. Have you managed to use your sonar unit much? Managed to get myself a second hand tow fish which is working quite nicely. Had a bit of a problem trimming it but now it’s flying quite nicely.

Ali

Allison

It usually works the other way round! Hope you enjoy your new found freedom to look for aircraft and dive at the same time… 😉

I am always keen to go an search but only as long as I know that there is likely to be something there. If there is an accident report with the name of the body of water and there is no evidence of a recovery having taken place then I would get some friends and go and have a look. I agree with what you say about it always being a SPITFIRE as everyone knows the name spit but all I think is “he means it’s a single engined aircraft”. If someone can give me a tail number I will get myself down to the Hendon archives and the public records and pull all the documentation that I can find first and then decide. I have some movement cards of a few aircraft that went into Lochs in Scotland but want to have a look first. I have seen a lot of attacks on people from people who just pull facts and have probably never even tried to look themselves so I will keep things to myself for the time being. I took up diving to explore and have been diving for the past 18 months with a seriously crack team who have found a lot of artifacts underwater so I have been learning a lot. I took up diving so that I can explore. I don’t just want to be yet another underwater tourist and even sold my flat in London so I could buy the RIB and some of the other kit.

Ali

PS: It’s great to be able to dump the boyfriend and follow something that I really love. 😎

Yes, pics would be very interesting.

War grave or no, it would be nice to see some confirmation images.

Mark

That is probably the Avenger.

This Seafire wreck mentioned by Allison Johnson a couple of months back sounds more worthy of a ‘diving’ investigation. For a start we have a sighting and a location.

Mark

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It was in salt water just off Burntisland in Fife. If you cleared some of the silt off the wings you could still make out the markings on it. There’s a Hurricane nearby too but I didn’t dive that one as I was told there is very little to see.

Ali