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July 31, 2003 |
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R/V Knorr arrived on target from Sinop and carried out its first
open ocean test dive with its new remotely operated vehicle (ROV)
HERCULES. After this test dive, HERCULES was brought back to the
surface and a series of adjustments were made to the ROV. |
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August 1, 2003 |
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We are transiting to a do a dive on an ancient shipwreck, called
Wreck B, which sank in 100 meters water depth probably during the
Byzantine Period about 4-6th century AD. We will be diving on that site
around 9am your time (4pm our time). |
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August 3, 2003 |
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I am writing at 1am KNORR time early AM on Aug. 3. We have spent most
of the day on Shipwrecks B and C, collecting survey data including
electronic still images and subbottom profiles. We used Hercules to
uncover several beams outside the amphora cargo area that are part of
the ships hull.
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August 5, 2003 |
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We are finishing up our work on Wreck D. Hercules has been working on
excavating a portion of the cargo area and tonight we loaded four
amphorae into our elevators. We are using a high-precision acoustic
navigation system to map the wreck site using multibeam sonar,
subbottom profiling, and electronic photography.
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August 6,2003 |
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It is now 1100 local on August 6th. The 5th was a very busy
24-hours. After excavating the port side of the Wreck D, exposing
several buried amphora, we used HERCULES to recover four of them which
were placed in one of two elevators were had dropped to the bottom. |
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