Indeed. Recalculated for inflation the Pilot Officer on £237 in say 1940 would be just over £11,000 now and the Flight Lieutenant on £648 would be just mover £31,000 now.

http://www.hmsroyaloak.co.uk/

Quite apart from it being a very good website packed with information and well worth an hour of anyone’s time, it illustrates how the “rules can be bent” in specific circumstances for diving to take place.

I was thinking of The Royal Oak as well, having visited the site on Orkney severl times. I suppose in that particlar case exceptional circumstances would have been argued to try to diminish, so far as possible, the environmental effects of the oil draining into Scapa Flow.

Kev

If your assumptions are proved correct is this a matter which you, as a private individual, can take up with the authorities or not?

Kev. I have delved into that thread, but it’s heavy reading tonight, but I see YOU certainly did a lot of research yourself regarding the man on the old thread.
Thanks for the help, (Could do with a brain de frag, now and again;))
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I commend the thread to you, Linc. I became absorbed in it in my earlier days here particularly as it had been revived after quite a long interval, if memory serves. Kev did an extraordinary job and in doing so brought much pleasure, if that’s the right word, to the individual concerned. I learned something about Kev from the thread, as well.:)

Yes, but I also made the point that they do not compromise the archaeology. They simply can only do as much as the three days allow.

Apologies if my comment was dismissive -it was not intended to be and I am well aware that many amateurs work with a great deal of knowledge.:)

Alan – I see you don’t live too far away so becoming a FoD might be very cost-effective. I reckon I pay for my membership several times over in a year.

Sorry, Linc but they do not JCB through archaeology. And of course metal detectors are useful and serve a purpose but under supervision. That’s the point. Random digging by amateurs who don’t know what they are doing but think they do is not helpful!