I won't tell you the exact location of the event as what we did was highly illegal and on top of everything else I don't need a police investigation coming my way.

I would like to stress that our intentions were

innocent. We really were only there for scientific research, all of which have been

signed off and we certainly meant no disrespect.

Desecration was never on our agenda, but things don't always go to plan.

Since the sunken wreck was a designated war grave, it is completely closed the tourism and other such morbid thrill seekers.

Permission is required to study the wreck, even then only from the outside.

No living person is allowed inside that ship.

I had been part of the project for some time, the purpose being to investigate the wreck

and its overall condition, to see how it had been taken over by the sea, and if possible,

to determine the integrity of the ship itself.

After all, there was still fuel in there, and if there were going to be any leaks we needed

to know.

We had completely mapped the outside of the ship with Sonar and had had some success

with small rovers that had been sent into the first two decks. We didn't expect to find

too much in those floors due to the sediment buildup and the fact that oxygen levels were high enough to have destroyed anything organic that could be there.

The pictures and videos we got back largely resembled a ship-shaped reef.

Shellfish, plants, the oddfish.

There was nothing tangible that

the suggested that humans had ever lived there, and only the square rooms and doorways gave it away.

The lower decks, three and below, could be a different ball game though.

It was believed that the oxygen levels were lower down there and there could possibly be less sediment too.

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