[Ant Slegg]

I received the following recently from a diving friend of mine and a close friend of the late Penny Glover. He received it directly from Penny's sister. Having checked they says it is OK to post it on Rebreather World (I have edited it slightly).

Can I please ask you not to use this post to kick off a discussion of the whys and wherefores of the incident. For a number of people on Rebreather World the loss of Penny and Jacques Philippi is still painful. Both were superb divers and it was a privilege to know them and to dive with them.

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Dear all,
I know that emails come and go, but I wanted to just update as many people as possible on how things have gone with regard to the Penny Glover memorial fund which many of you were involved in supporting, including her former employers SES Astra and Satlynx.
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We had two projects - the first was to help refurbish a boatshed in Oulton Broad (which is near where we grew up) and is being used as a watersports centre to encourage young people to take up any manner of water sports. It is also being used to help motivate pupils between 7 and 14 and develop their literacy/numeracy and ICT skills through the medium of sport.

I attach two rather amateurish photographs which give a flavour. You'll notice there is a plaque to Penny on the wall.

The second project was called DiveTrack. It was to encourage designers to come up with a prototype that could track divers underwater from a boat and enable them to send distress signals. It also had to be cheap to produce if manufactured in batch (ie over 1,000). We had support from the BSAC and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The winner was agreed last week and was Newcastle University and Tritech. I spent a chilly weekend in Oban, Scotland helping the BSAC divers to test the equipment. No I didn't go in but did hold a pencil and take measurements and I was wearing a wetsuit (how do you lot bear it?!) and on an RHIB.

I attach a press release which I have adapted for our local papers to give the Suffolk feel.

As you know the authorities gave up and Penny and Jacques were found after 6 weeks by a private salvage vessel. I am convinced if they had been wearing this piece of kit even in its prototype form they would have been found.

This is probably the last message I will send like this. But I did want you to know what had happened and to thank you for all your support and kind words over the last - what is nearly - 2 years now.

Kind regards



Fiona (Penny's sister)
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[Ben Field]

Thank you for getting this posted here Antony. I'm very pleasing to see progress has been made and action taken.

I look forward to seeing the DiveTrack, if its lives up to its promise I'm pretty sure our club will be interested.