A diver spent two hours dragging up a WWII Royal Canadian Navy ship bell from 69 meters under the sea - after it was missing on the shipwreck for 80 years.

Dom Robinson, 53, has been diving and exploring shipwrecks for over 40 years and said people have spent 20 years searching for the HMCS Trentonian's bell.

The Royal Canadian Navy ship sunk after being hit by a torpedo on February 22, 1945 - killing six people.

The ship's bell became a bit of a "myth" - as no one had seen it since it was first dived - so Dom was "super excited" to find it on his third dive of the wreck on April 27, 2025."

He spent several hours lugging it up to the shoreline from 69 meters down, near Falmouth, Cornwall, in an emotional moment.

The bell has now been handed over to the Deputy Naval Attache from the Canadian Embassy and will be cleaned up and displayed in a museum.

Dom, a project manager, from Portsmouth, Hampshire, said: "It's been dived for 20 odd years this wreck."

"There was a myth that the bell was down there."

"The first person saw the bell and left it there for whatever reason."

"Then since they couldn't find it."

"Everyone assumes it was a myth."

"I went down and found it."

"You have to carry it up - it took a couple of hours. You can imagine it was quite emotional."

"If you're going to pick one part of the ship that is its heart or soul it would be the bell."

Dom - who has found two other ship bells in his years of diving - couldn't believe it when he discovered it.

He said: "The wreck is really broken."

"It had 80 years under water - it's covered in fishing gear. It doesn't look like a shipwreck."

"I found it close the bridge area."

"I think the reason people didn't find it is because it's buried under quite a bit of rusty plate and fishing net."

"I saw the rim of it and it caught my eye."

"I put my hand inside. I knew instantly what it was."

"I got super excited."

Dom brought the bell back up and declared it to the Receiver of Wreck. He also contacted a Canadian historian who helped connect him with the Canadian Navy.

On May 12, 2025, the Deputy Naval Attache from the Canadian Embassy came to Plymouth for the handover of the bell.

Dom can't wait to then see the bell cleaned up and displayed in a Navy museum in Canada.

He said: "It's the single thing that defines and makes it that ship."

"They are beautiful things."

"It's my favourite dive."

"It's a highlight of my diving career."