A team of divers from Southsea Sub-Aqua Club will solve the mystery of how two tanks, two bulldozers and a field gun, believed to be linked to D-Day and Project Neptune, came to rest on the sea bed eight miles offshore in Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex.
The historic WW2 armoured vehicles and gun lie jumbled up on the sea bed at a depth of 20m but there is no known associated shipwreck nearby. The divers will survey the site to establish how the equipment came to rest on the sea bed.
The project, led by Alison Mayor, has the approval of the MoD and a grant from the British Sub-Aqua Jubilee Trust.
The team behind this project won the Duke of Edinburgh's Prize in 2009
On 3rd June 2019 Historic England announced that the Tanks and Bulldozers will become a listed site and will now be protected for the future.
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/news/remembering-d-day-sites-protected/
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1459802
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48478849
