Wreck Discovery and Diving
On June 22, 2001 the Danish expedition company "No limit diving" with the Danish filmmaker Lasse Spang Olsen's documentary "The Mystery of Flying Enterprise" a team of Danish and British divers re-discovered the famous lost shipwreck Flying Enterprise almost 50 years after she had sunk. Well known deep wreck diver Leigh Bishop had researched the whereabouts of the sinking and obtained information from British government departments on the wreck's approximate location. Photographs taken by Leigh Bishop were enough to positively identify the wreck as that of the Flying Enterprise.
Later Leigh Bishop worked with US divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler to film the wreck for a 2005 episode of the History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives. This became the deepest wreck dived of the 56 episodes made.
The wreck now lies resting on her port side in a depth of 84m/280 ft on the seabed of the western approaches to the English Channel. Leigh Bishop recovered artifacts from the site, which went on display for many successful years to the general public in the Cornish Maritime Museum.
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