Review: Introduction to Nautical Archaeology (part 2)

I wrote in a previous post about members of my local dive club participating in an introductory course in marine archaeolgy on 28th April.

That article covered the first 2 parts of the course, whereas this article covers the final part of the course where we all got wet in a local swimming pool to try and translate the stuff we’d learnt in the classroom and on the outdoor, ‘dry’ exercise into practise.

Underwater Surveying Using a Frame

Underwater Surveying Using a Frame
photo: (c) Jon Martin 2007

The photo shows an underwater frame, which is one technique of surveying all or part of a dive site. The other technique we used…
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Review: Introduction to Nautical Archaeology (part 1)

In previous posts I’ve written about the wreck that has been recently discovered in Norman’s Bay and the plans of the licensee of the wreck to work with my local scuba diving club to research it further.

As part of these plans, five dive club members attended an Introductory course delivered by the Nautical Archaeological Society (NAS) on 28th April, at the NAS headquarters in Portsmouth.

The course was split into three parts:
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