Exciting session at Legacy Workshop will feature results of the U-Boat Project’s Marine Life surveys

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Exciting session at Legacy Workshop will feature results of the U-Boat Project’s Marine Life surveys

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As part of the U-Boat Project, 1914-18: Commemorating the War at Sea Bangor University have acquired new underwater footage of selected Great War wreck sites to better record and understand their current condition, and the marine life now inhabiting them.

Dr Tim Whitton

We look forward to sharing video clips and marine life descriptions from the DERBENT wreck and other wrecks during a special session to be run by Dr Tim Whitton, School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, at the Project’s Legacy workshop at the Marine Centre Wales, Bangor University, 7-9 September 2019.

Come and join us. Registration is free and can be done online by following the link below:

https://ti.to/digital-past/commemorating-the-war-at-sea-2019-legacy-workshop

The propeller of the DERBENT with a diver showing its imposing size. The blades are covered in plumose anemones that have retracted their tentacles making them appear as orange and white blobs. Source: Bangor University

 

 

Bib, a fish otherwise known as pouting, are a common sight around shipwrecks in schools and individually, like this one above the hull of the DERBENT. Source: Bangor University.