Sadly not, will shipwrecks do?
I am no downed plane spotter but do know there are probably hundreds of downed aircraft in the North Sea.
Sadly few of these are intact since Me109s were pretty good at shooting up our aircarft at the start of the war and we were pretty good at returning the favour later on with Spitfires and Mustangs. Most aircraft wrecks are just that; wreckage.
The North Sea is mostly about 30-40 meters deep with odd spots down to about 80 metres so depth is not a problem but these wrecks are notoriously difficult to find becuse viz in the North sea is so bad and they are often missed even when using a magnetometer to search for them (I drool when I see pictures of Truk lagoon!).
There are at least 35 shipwrecks per mile off the coast on the bottom of the North Sea (at least in the South and East) and the vast majority are most certainly worth visiting.
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Last edited by The Iceni; November 16th, 2002 at 08:34 PM.
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