The Diver

The Diver is made of galvanised steel bands on a steel frame and is 15 feet (4.6 m) tall and approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) wide[1] and is partly submerged every high tide and totally submerged by spring tides.

Initially he financed the project himself but later received funding from Cleanaway, a local refuse company.

Receiving mentoring from Don Rankin, support from the Havering London Borough Council in the person of Adam Nardell and additional financial support from friend, John Bowyer, John was able to complete and site the statue in August 2000 in its current location.

His grandfather Friederich Johann Andreas Kaufmann was a diver in the London Docks[1] c. 1900.

The sculpture is sited in the River Thames in Rainham, East London.