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Should a watery war grave be excavated?

On my mantelpiece sits a plastic film canister filled with dry sand. It was scooped from the Goodwin Sands by YM photographer Graham Snook back in the days before cameras were digital and given to me as a souvenir for a feature we made on the dangers of crossing the Dover Strait.

Now the old ‘ship swallower’, as this maritime hazard was

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