The Bronington Trust have been given massive help by dive company Briggs Marine, https://www.briggsmarine.com/, who cut them a very generous deal to conduct a full dive survey. And this was no small undertaking. Briggs deployed two divers, one on dive, one fully kitted up and on standby; and then conducted a day-long search with fingertip care, all results relayed back to a mobile control room, full TV and sound facilities monitoring the dive, and seeing what their diver saw, continuously. Diving Supervisor Craig Harris oversaw the dive meticulously, along with other Briggs staff. “We were able to see 60 – 70% of the vessel – a lot of the hull was into silt, quite challenging for the diver… zero visibility in places, taking measurements with next to no vis.” So – your verdict? “At this stage everything’s looking quite good. Everybody’s happy!”
BRIGGS MARINE TO THE RESCUE
24 October 2022
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Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years of experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four-time award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with the Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995 when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.