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Maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings
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Maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings
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    • An unprecedented endeavour
    • Germany First!
    • A highly complex organisation
    • D-Day
    • Assessment of the landings
    • A heritage destined to disappear
    • Degradation due to multiple causes
    • The kings of salvage
    • Wrecks without objects
    • The case of the artificial harbour off Arromanches
    • Documentary campaigns (2000-2013)
    • Caen Plongée, the forerunners
    • Locating remains from the US Navy
    • A systematic study of Mulberry B
    • Veterans dive on D-Day wrecks
    • A systematic inventory (2015-2019)
    • A heritage-based initiative
    • New geophysical surveys
    • Complementary investigative dives
    • An exceptional corpus
    • Remains representative of participants in the D-Day landings?
    • Immersion on the wrecks of the Normandy landings
    • Safeguarding the landing operations
    • Support and escort forces
    • Transporting and caring for troops
    • Transporting equipment
    • The importance of service vessels
    • The Gooseberries
    • Floating tanks
    • Resources
    • Glossary
    • Media Library
    • Information for divers
    • Bibliography
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Maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings

Off the coast of the Normandy landing beaches, the bed of the Baie de Seine conserves one of the world’s largest areas of underwater remains. Some 150 wrecks of ships, landing craft, tanks and the remains of artificial harbours, attest to the variety of equipment used by the Allied Forces.

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Maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings

A battlefield under the sea

  1. An unprecedented endeavour

  2. A heritage destined to disappear

  3. Documentary campaigns (2000-2013)

  4. A systematic inventory (2015-2019)

  5. Immersion on the wrecks of the Normandy landings

Media & Resources

  • Char retourné à l’avant de l’épave de Landing ship tank appelée « Carbonel » par les plongeurs normands

    Overturned tank

    Overturned tank in front of the wreck of the Landing Ship Tank called the “Carbonel” by local Norman divers

    Jacques Le Lay

  • Épave d’une barge citerne coulée au large des plages du Débarquement

    Wreck of a Landing Barge Oiler (LBO)

    Off the D-Day landing beaches (Normandy).

    Photo. Teddy Seguin / DRASSM / Normandy Region

  • Soldats canadiens après le raid de Dieppe (19 août 1942)

    Canadian soldiers

    Canadian soldiers lying near a landing craft and tanks, following the Dieppe raid (19 August 1942)

    Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN 3628496

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An unprecedented endeavour

  • Germany First!
  • A highly complex organisation
  • D-Day
  • Assessment of the landings

A heritage destined to disappear

  • Degradation due to multiple causes
  • The kings of salvage
  • Wrecks without objects
  • The case of the artificial harbour off Arromanches

Documentary campaigns (2000-2013)

  • Caen Plongée, the forerunners
  • Locating remains from the US Navy
  • A systematic study of Mulberry B
  • Veterans dive on D-Day wrecks

A systematic inventory (2015-2019)

  • A heritage-based initiative
  • New geophysical surveys
  • Complementary investigative dives
  • An exceptional corpus
  • Remains representative of participants in the D-Day landings?

Immersion on the wrecks of the Normandy landings

  • Safeguarding the landing operations
  • Support and escort forces
  • Transporting and caring for troops
  • Transporting equipment
  • The importance of service vessels
  • The Gooseberries
  • Floating tanks

Resources

  • Glossary
  • Media Library
  • Information for divers
  • Bibliography

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