25 SEPTEMBER 2001

The final morning on board consisted of packing equipment and following a team photograph we disembarked at Singapore Ferry Terminal. The transport, arranged by the British High Commission (BHC), collected the team from the ferry terminal and drove us to the hotel. The remainder of the day was spent with courtesy calls to the BHC and last minute shopping; before the flight home tomorrow.

FINAL THOUGHTS

There has been much debate on whether war graves like these should be dived or whether some form of regulating is needed. A personnel view is that ships like these should be dived but that divers must behave in a suitable way. These vessels, and others like them, are a testament to the once great might of the Royal Navy and to the officers and men who served aboard them. Some consider diving these sights to be the same as opening someone's coffin, I would prefer to compare it with visiting a military grave yard to pay your last respects. It is sincerely hoped that the survivors of both Prince of Wales and Repulse are content that the expedition was conducted in a fitting way and that the programme being produced for the BBC, which is due to appear early to mid 2001, is seen as a fitting tribute to those past and present who were there on 10 December 1941.