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:

• Firstly some classroom lectures about the scope of marine archaeology and the legal and social requirements;
• Secondly there was a practical exercise of surveying a mock dive site on dry land;
• Finally, the surveying exercise was transferred to a local swimming pool, and we had to try to repeat the measuring whilst remembering to breath ;-)

The first two parts of the day were very informative, and the two course presenters managed to get across the finer points of what could easily have been a very dry (no pun intended) course with a great deal of enthusiasm and fun.

The underwater part of the course will be covered in a future post.

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