8: Acknowledgements

The authors thank University of Edinburgh for hosting the research. HR Wallingford, States of Guernsey and Alderney and Dover Harbour Board for access to previous study reports. Harbour Masters at Guernsey and Jersey for access to historical data. Roland Paxton, Trevor Whittaker, Tom Bruce and David Ingram for guidance and support. Librarians at ICE and University of Edinburgh for guidance in chasing up historical material, and the late Gerald Marshall for funding the digitising of ICE Proceedings. ICE R&D Enabling Fund and HR Wallingford, and the various visiting researchers supported the model tests^2,18 .