The Project Longshot team talks about the first shot fired in WW1 on Channel 9's Today Show.

Anzac Day 25/04/2014

2014 marks the centenary of World War 1 and we are planning a series of missions to find the first Allied shot fired in the Great War. The shell, if it is still intact, lies inside the opening to Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne.

Southern Ocean Exploration and Whitewater Documentaries have teamed up in a big effort to do whatever we can to find the shell.

Longshot will be a difficult mission given the ferocity of the tides in this area and a century of constant dredging, not to mention that locating a six-inch shell in Port Phillip Bay will be a needle-in-a-haystack job.

However, we have sourced specialist sonar equipment; a magnetometer that the US Navy is using in Pearl Harbour to locate unexploded ordinance from the Japanese attack in 1942.

This equipment is capable of finding a .22 shell under six feet of sand.

SOE will volunteer all of its resources to find the shell: divers, boats, fuel and insurances -- but we need to buy this equipment if we are to have any chance of finding the shell.

Whitewater Documentaries will provide a film crew to document the event, with a view to telling the fascinating story of the Pfalz in a one-hour television documentary.

Please browse the links below for more details about this exciting project -- it's a long shot, but with your help -- we can do this.



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