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Maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings
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 assessment 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

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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  • Destroyer USS Rich hitting a mine on 8 June 1944

  • Multibeam echo sounder survey of the destroyer USS Meredith

  • English 500-pound bomb

  • Floating road from Mulberry A

  • Effects of metallic corrosion on the hull of the destroyer HMS Lawford

  • Salvor from the metal salvage company La Sirène cutting a 305 mm cannon

  • La Sirène employee cutting an armour plate from the Courbet

  • The officers’ mess on the Courbet at high tide

  • The salvage company La Sirène removing part of a D-Day wreck

  • The young Gabriel Serra on his first dive

  • On the Demota company’s pontoon in Courseulles

  • Removal of a cannon by the Demota company

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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 assessment 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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