Maurice Young 1 - The ship was buried under that mound, we were right over the top of it.
Maurice became involved with the Mary Rose project from the early days in the mid 1960s. He dived on the site to help discover where the ship was buried. It took the divers five years to find the exact location.
Maurice is a shipwright by trade and was able to identify timbers and ship structure when it started to be uncovered. He helped the team piece together how the ship was positioned underneath the seabed.
Here he recalls swimming over the site where the ship was buried, with Alexander McKee.
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And I dare say some of us would have thought in the early stages of the Mary Rose project, we certainly, well I go as far as I say yes, definitely from myself, If it hadn't of been for him as a driving force, a lot of us would of fallen by the wayside, and even with them as a driving force, I used to think sometimes, I'm sure he is seeing things that aren't there. He would look on the seabed and he would say, "Well there's the mound." And I swam across this area with him once and he said, "Did you see the mound"? And I thought, no I didn't see a mound, I swore blind I did but I didn't see it. And afterwards I thought, I'm sure he didn't see it. But he did and that was... we were right on it. He knew what he was looking for, I didn't and the ship was buried under that mound, we were right over the top of it.
The ship was buried under that mound, we were right over the top of it.
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Sometimes I could say yes, this is a hanging knee
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This fish came swimming slowly down the sternpost right in front of me
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Not only could I see them, I could touch them
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My impression of the whole thing was that it was so vast
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