Key dates are:
             August 4th - survey starts
             August 19th - diving starts
             September 3rd - memorial ceremony

     The Struma Project would like to thank the Turkish
     Government for their help and support in granting
     permission for the expedition to proceed.

     There she remained for 70 days. The British refused to grant permission for
     them to enter Palestine and the Turks would not let them repair the engine,
     disembark or remain in Turkey.

     With only the food and water supplied by the local Jewish community and no
     sanitary facilities, conditions on the unbearably cramped, little ship rapidly
     deteriorated.

     On the evening of February 23rd 1942, Turkish police seized control of ship
     and towed it out into the Black Sea. With no engine, she drifted over night
     when at first light a Russian submarine sank her with a single torpedo.

     103 children, 269 women and 406 men died. Amongst them, my Paternal
     grandparents. There was one survivor, David Stoliar.

     The Ship's name was Struma.

     In August 2000 we aim to mount an expedition to Turkey and want to locate,
     survey and dive the Struma.
     At the same time we will hold a ceremony of commemoration in Turkey to
     which we have invited the governments of related countries, the survivor and
     any relatives who we can contact.

     The Struma Expedition is working in parnership with:

     United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
     Yad Vashem - Holocuast Museum in Israel
     Associated Producers - Television documentary producers
     The Starfish Enterprise - diving team
     SAD - Turkish diving research group

     and with the generous support from:

     Deep Down Diving - Rebreather and Trimix Training
     DDRC - Diving Diseases Research Centre - decompression and hyperbaric
     support
     Scubasure/DDRC - diver's insurance
     Dive Girl - publicity, media and design services
     Diver Magazine
     Forward Diving Services - equipment design and servicing
     Custom Divers - technical diving equipment
 
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Greg's story
      In September 1998, while returning from an expedition to explore the Britannic in the Aegean, I decided to   mount an expedition to locate and dive my grandparent's last resting  place. As I researched, I came across many other people who had relatives on the Struma or were in some way  connected to the story. I discovered I  was not alone in my desire to connect with this piece of largely forgotten history.

      We now have an international project  including David Stoliar, the survivor,  who lives in Oregon, USA; the finest team of British exploration divers; The US Holocaust Museum; Turkey's
premier underwater research and diving group, SAD and a rapidly growing group of relatives.

      We aim to locate, survey and dive the Struma in August 2000. At the same time we will hold a ceremony of commemoration in Turkey to which we have invited the governments of related countries, the survivor and any relatives who we can contact. The story and its related history will be filmed for a documentary which we hope will receive world wide distribution.

      We have no political agenda. No one
      will profit from the expedition.

      If I have any objective beyond my own
      desire to close the circle broken in
      1942, it would be to help focus a little
      attention on the past and a lot more
      on the future for all those involved.

      Greg Buxton