The Bell Island shipwrecks have long been a popular dive site, due to their accessibility and state of their preservation. In 2010, the daughter of the U-Boat captain that sank two of the four ships visited Newfoundland, where she was greeted with friendship and understanding. She was able to share her father’s documents and mementos from that trip which has bolstered a ten year, hard-fought campaign to declare the wrecks a historic site.