Due to the exceptional quality of the applications, and for the first time ever, we have awarded two Protected Wreck Support Awards this year to recipients Daniel Pascoe and Ian Cundy. Both applicants were thoroughly deserving of the award.
Daniel Pascoe, Mary Rose
Dan is a familiar face within England’s protected wreck community and has worked on many sites including the Invincible, Northumberland and Hazardous. For many years he has also been involved with the Mary Rose. This grant will go towards the hire of a dive charter boat to enable a team to inspect the current condition of the remaining wreck material on the seabed.
This is particularly urgent as in August 2021 a high-resolution multi-beam survey of the site identified potential timbers emerging from an area believed to be the potential location of the missing bow castle. It is thought that seabed erosion has occurred in this area possibly due to scouring around the sinker and chain of the site buoy. This inspection of the site will allow the team to assess the archaeology that is potentially exposed and to determine what measures will be needed to record and protect it. If timber structures and or artefacts are found relating to the Mary Rose it will provide further evidence that there are significant remains still on the seabed.
Ian Cundy, Bronze Bell
MSDS Marine have been working on the Bronze Bell site this year on behalf of the CHERISH Project. We were therefore delighted to receive Ian’s application. Ian has been involved with the Bronze Bell wreck since 1998 and has acted more recently as the wreck’s nominated archaeologist. The grant will be used to develop and print an information leaflet about the wreck for visitors to the Ty Gwyn Museum in Barmouth which houses material from the wreck.