Our very own podcast series!
After three years of hard work we are finally streaming our very own series of podcasts! We have spoken to 12 people with completely different experiences of the Goodwin Sands …
After three years of hard work we are finally streaming our very own series of podcasts! We have spoken to 12 people with completely different experiences of the Goodwin Sands …
Guardian journalist Caroline Davies has written an excellent article about our campaign to encourage The Crown Estate to remove the Goodwin Sands from its list of potential marine aggregate extraction …
In order to achieve its conservation objectives for protecting the seabed, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has recently launched a public consultation on banning bottom-trawling in over 40 Marine Protected …
Historian and History Hit presenter Dan Snow has produced a fabulous documentary about diving on the English warship HMS Northumberland , sunk on the Goodwin Sands in the Great Storm of …
Our peer-reviewed report into the bathymetric (sea floor) modelling carried out by Dover Harbour Board for their dredging licence application has now been published. It is being widely circulated amongst …
An eagle-eyed supporter spotted this Times article from 100 yeara ago. Thank you Alec!
We were delighted to be invited to talk about the work of the Conservation Trust with Lee Ackers for his Midday Meet Up on Deal Radio. Click on the title …
We are delighted to have been invited to join the Joint Nautical Archaeology Policy Committee – a group of respected individuals and organisations in the world of maritime archaeology whose …
Dr Daniel Pascoe of Pascoe Archaeology and Alison James of MSDS Marine explain to BBC Radio Kent why we must act now to save the wreck of the warship HMS …
Country LIfe magazine has written a very well balanced article article about the Port of Dover’s plans to abandon dredging the Goodwin Sands. credit Country Life 26 October 2022 www.countrylife.co.uk
The recent Launch Night of the joint Dark and Stormy art exhibition with the Trust and the Taylor-Jones gallery in Deal was a great success! About 100 people filled the gallery …
In April, feature writer Ed Cumming of The Daily Telegraph wrote an excellent article about our campaign to Save Our Sands from marine aggregate extraction.
On this day, 1948 Another ship on the GoodwinsWithin ten minutes of the maroons being fired the Walmer lifeboat Charles Dibdin was launched from the steep beach. The weather was …
As the North Deal lifeboat cleared the wreck of the schooner Toogo, the coxswain told his men to keep a good lookout for those struggling in the sea. One of …
On Friday morning, October 31st, 1919, the ketch barge Corinthian set sail in a freshening north-east breeze. The vessel, along with the slightly smaller ketch Glenavon, had completed loading phosphates …
Another fascinating story from David Chamberlain about the the SS Montrose and the strange coincidence of two men named Crippen
Death affects everybody in different ways. Sadness consumes the mind along with the loss. Nevertheless, when death could be avoided, the mind is not only filled with melancholy but also …
We can’t wait to see the whole film! Enjoy this trailer tease of diving HMS Northumberland by Dan Pascoe and his team. Fabulous photography as always from Michael Pitts
There’s been much activity on the Goodwin Sands over the past few months. Read all about it in our autumn newsletter!
In August 2021, licencee Dr Doug McElvogue and his team spent five days exploring the wreck of HMS Restoration – one of four Royal Navy warships that sank during the Great Storm of …
Read the article about the 12 year routine survey in the Kent Mercury.
Better posted late than never but this excellent article by Robert Hartman of the Daily Mail encapsulates exactly what we are fighting to conserve. Battle of Britain Daily Mail 15 …
Read about the recent seabed survey of the Goodwin Sands online from the Isle of Thanet News.
Heart warming and wonderful underwater footage of a seal pup curious about visitors to its home on the Goodwin Sands. Note how the strong current is turning the propellor blades. …
Photo: examining the cauldron by Michael Pitts Read about Dan Pascoe’s race against time to protect the historic wreck of the Royal Navy warship HMS Northumberland that was lost on the Goodwins …
If you missed our June 2021 newsletter, you can read it here. (Click on the title first)
We are delighted and proud to be included on the new website about Deal High Street. Check out http://www.highstreetdeal.co.uk (click on the title first) to find out what is going on in …
It is not very well known that in 1906 the crew of Walmer lifeboat went on strike following what was considered to be their difference of opinion with the Central …
At a meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s Committee of Management on May 9, 1912, the decision was made to close Broastairs lifeboat station, with the actual closure taking …
Over the weekend of November 19th to the 21st, 1916, two large steamships went ashore on the Goodwin Sands. Volunteers went to Kingsdown to launch the lifeboat situated there, which …
