Restrictions lifted on wreck site

All diving on the wreck had been suspended

Authorities have lifted diving restrictions placed on the Alderney Elizabethan wreck site.

It follows the sudden death of a diver working on the wreck who was from Jersey on Sunday.

All diving restrictions have now been lifted by the Alderney Harbour Master and all licences reinstated.

Peter Le Sauteur, who was 55, died after surfacing from a dive. He had been working on a survey of the wreck, as part of a salvage operation.

All diving on the wreck had been suspended following his death.

Mr Le Sauter was working on the survey as part of an Alderney Maritime Trust operation to recover two cannons from the vessel.

Marine archaeologists started the excavation work in May.

The ship went down off Alderney, which is 23 miles away from Guernsey and the third largest of the Channel Islands, in 1592.

It was carrying a military cargo when it sank and was discovered by a fisherman in 1977.

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