We are currently diving round the lee side of the island and making passage by Island Longboat hired on a daily basis as it is too rough for skiffs.

Much continues to be achieved and today we have set up some long term scientific studies.

Rod Newman reading the lesson from the HMAV Bounty Bible. The original bible from HMAV Bounty survives to this day and is kept in a locked display case in the Seventh Day Adventists Church in the town square. This bible became the book from which John Adams began his Christian teachings.

The Team relax with a game of tennis...

Photo's by islander Dave Brown.

Dickie Dorrington taking a look at the grave stone of ABLE SEAMAN JOHN ADAMS the man who became the patriarch of the settlement of Pitcairn.

History tells that John Adams took an active part in the mutiny on the Bounty and survived all of the massachers to become the leader of the community, bringing religion and peace to the settlers and dying of natural courses, the only member of the original mutineers to do so.

A fish banquet laid on by the local Pitcairn Islanders proceeds the ceremonial burning of a model of the HMAS Bounty on the anniversary of the destruction of the original vessel.

Commemorating the actual burning and sinking of the original vessel some 213 year ago to the day. The model is made by the local islanders, a vast majority of which are direct decendants of the original mutineers.

Lorraine England (Left) and Dave Goldie conducting a survey of the wreck of the merchant vessel Cornwallis which foundered off the coast in 1875, just a few hundred yard from where the remains of the Bounty rest.

To the right Robert Irving & Kate Northen count butterfly fish in the Pitcarn survey.