Right from the off with the Paul Meyer story I was determined not to add to the wild rumour and speculation that just developed into conspiracy theories. I am only interested in facts. It was however obvious something wasn’t right that is why we got involved in the first place. I get asked all the … Read Article
In some ways finding the aircraft was the easy bit (HaHa). We now have a real task ahead of us but as usual we will come at it straight and level whatever it takes. We will treat the aircraft remains as if it were a crime scene the first job being to map out and … Read Article
We made this little video back in August which highlights the enormity of our task when we still had the weather on our side! The soundtrack is from “Flying home” written and performed especially for the project by our friends and huge Deeper Dorset supporters The Dolmen. We are still getting out there dodging the … Read Article
Exciting times ahead.. After three years of being messed about and shoved from pillar to post we now have a way forward with historic racing yacht Dolly Varden. Sadly it doesn’t involve my home town of Weymouth but it wasn’t for the lack of trying, just a shame there is such a lack of vision … Read Article
The amount of rumour and conspiracy theories surrounding the disappearance of Paul Meyer beggars belief. I am doing my level best not to add to them but just chip away at each and every one a process that takes time and in most cases requires professional help. Slowly slowly we Are stripping back the stories … Read Article
Grumpy bird awaits us at the entrance to the National Archives! For now I think we have checked out every line of enquiry at this fantastic facility with regard to Paul Meyer and the flight of the Hercules, we now have to look further afield. Same applies to the newspaper archives which we have trawled … Read Article
What have we here then? Centre stage the dunny from Dolly Varden soon to be off to Blakes for restoration, we know King GeorgeV spent time onboard Dolly I wonder if the value of the bog increases if we could prove he used the facilities?? Everything else is torpedo related and is soon off to … Read Article
When I started The Shipwreck Project a good few years ago now it was primarily based around diving and trying to get folks involved in maritime history, sadly it didn’t work out and hard expensive lessons were learned. Trying to do too many things at once is a failing of mine but that said in … Read Article
I am always happy to come along to your place big or small venue and give a presentation. At this time the themes are Dolly Varden historic racing yacht and the mystery of Paul Meyer. The talks last around an hour with a question and answer session at the end. I charge £50 plus any … Read Article
It might look a bit Heath Robinson but we are slowly refining and tuning this bit of kit into our eyes beneath the waves. As can be seen a couple of posts back it has already found its first shipwreck and we are now very quickly able to check out sonar targets without wasting diver … Read Article