Moving forward, I mean how hard can that be?

Having removed certain information from the website and closed the forum a few are wondering why I have done this. Firstly as I have said before on this blog there was no doubt that the format didn’t work and secondly I have had to until I can come up with a solution to several problems. I shall be very careful in future what information I put on the site which is really sad as it is that very information that gets folk interested in shipwrecks. In an ideal world all information should be in the public domain however acquiring this information does come at a cost so surely in fairness I should have some say on where it goes and how it is used. For example every time I go out with the sidescan it costs me a hundred quid in fuel plus the wear and tear on the equipment and the boat. If I find a canon site worthy of further investigation I have to pay a one thousand pound fee to the MMO (Marine Management Organisation) for a license to remove anything from the site that may help us identify it. The one thousand pounds is used as a fund that various experts.... can draw from at the rate of eighty pounds an hour so the site that I discovered can be assessed from an office! If they don’t use all the money I get some back, if they use more then I will have to fork out so what am I going to do? Yes you guessed it keep my mouth shut. Aside from this after many years diving deep channel shipwrecks one of the divers now retired has been passing on information about the wrecks dived from my boat and others to salvage men. This has resulted in the total destruction of one wreck and major damage to at least five others with more no doubt in the pipeline ,so what am I going to do? You guessed it again I keep my mouth shut. So what’s the answer? Well as yet I don’t know but for sure Bureaucracy and the stupid actions of one greedy individual shouldn’t penalise everyone else so trust me I am thinking hard.