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the 24/01/2008 at 01:30 :
‘Mysteries of LaBelle' outlined by Bruseth, ship's lead archaeologist
from The Rockport Pilot
Dr. Jim Bruseth, director of the archeology division at the Texas Historical Commission, and deputy state historic preservation officer, was the keynote speaker Friday at the Texas Maritime Museum speaking about “Mysteries of La Belle.”
Bruseth had been the keynote speaker at the opening of the exhibit for the La Salle Odyssey at the Museum in 2003. It was the first organization to share the coveted artifacts from the ship the La Belle.
Bruseth's knowledge about La Belle and her artifacts is vast. He served as project director of the excavation and recovery of La Salle's ship, in Matagorda Bay, in 1996-97.
The La Belle was discovered in 12-foot bay waters. A cofferdam was built around the site and the water was pumped out. Bruseth said the cofferdam worked beautifully.
“It allowed us to excavate as one would on land,” he said.
More than one million artifacts were recovered.
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the 20/01/2008 at 03:46 :
 Noah’s Ark nestled on Mount Ararat
by Satish Kanady
Dogubayazit (Turkey’s Iran-Armenian Border) • For the first time in the seven decade-long history of the search for the legendary Noah’s Ark, a Turkish-Hong Kong exploration team on Tuesday came out with “material evidence”, to prove that the Ark was nestled on Mount Ararat, Turkey’s highest mountain peak bordering Iran and Armenia.
A panel of experts, comprising Turkish authorities, veteran mountaineers, archaeologists, geologists and members of Hong Kong-based Noah’s Ark Ministries International, also displayed an almost one-metre-long peice of petrified wood before the media and specially invited international experts.
The experts claimed it to be a part of a long structure they had unearthed during their February-August 2007 exploration. “It is for the first time in the history of the Ark search that an exploration team is getting a material evidence and graphic documentation. This makes it not only a the significant breakthrough in the Ark-search, but one that is supported with the most substantial evidence in recent history,” the panel said.
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the 16/01/2008 at 08:00 :
German U-boat sunk 90 years ago found after five-year search
by Robert Fairburn
A German U-boat sunk off the Scottish coast more than 90 years ago has finally been discovered by two divers after a five-year search.
Jim MacLeod and Martin Sinclair found the wreckage of the U12, the first ever submarine to have an aeroplane carried on its deck, 25 miles from the Berwickshire port of Eyemouth at the weekend.
The exact location of the 60-metre boat had become a mystery to the two divers after a number of searches of the seabed where it was recorded to have been lying proved fruitless.
The pair worked with a researcher and shipwreck enthusiast Kevin Heath, of Orkney, who tracked down the logbooks of British destroyers HMS Ariel, Acheron and Attack, all of which were involved in the sinking of the U12.
The precise location of the vessel was then pinpointed, 15 miles from where it was originally thought to be.
Mr MacLeod, 45, a computer systems analyst from Bo'ness, and Mr Sinclair, 47, a mechanical engineer from Falkirk, then enlisted the help of specialist Eyemouth firm Marine Quest Dive Charters to visit the location where they found the submarine lying 150 feet down on the seabed.
It was the first time the wreck had been visited since it was sunk in 1915.
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the 15/01/2008 at 11:47 :
 Underwater city could be revealed
from BBC News
Britain's own underwater "Atlantis" could be revealed for the first time with hi-tech underwater cameras.
Marine archaeologist Stuart Bacon and Professor David Sear, of the University of Southampton, will explore the lost city of Dunwich, off the Suffolk coast.
Dunwich gradually disappeared into the sea because of coastal erosion.
"It's about the application of new technology to investigate Britain's Atlantis, then to give this information to the public," Professor Sear said.
Mr Bacon, director of the Suffolk Underwater Studies, first located the debris of the lost city in the 1970s.
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the 13/01/2008 at 06:14 :
Shipwreck artifact resurfaces
by Drew Herman
Three years after coming off the bottom of Monk’s Lagoon, a historic artifact has surfaced again in Alaska.
The metal cylinder that served as the hub of the steering wheel onboard the Russian American bark Kad’yak bears the ship’s name in bold Cyrillic letters. It’s discovery by a team of underwater archaeologists from East Carolina University allowed positive identification of the find, recognized as the oldest shipwreck in Alaska waters.
This weekend it makes its first public appearance since July 2004 as part of the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology booth during Ocean Family Day at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center (formerly the Anchorage Museum of History and Art).
The artifact has not been seen in Kodiak since the ECU unveiled their discovery. After resting submerged in cold seawater off Spruce Island for 144 years, it needed careful handling to make it safe for study and display. Marine archaeology experts at Texas A&M University performed the months-long work.
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the 09/01/2008 at 03:06 :
 Message in a 2,400-year-old bottle
by Roger Highfield
A new DNA technique could provide a revolutionary insight into the lives of the Ancient Greeks - using jars that have lain on the seabed for millennia.
These amphoras were the cargo containers of the ancient world, used for shipping all kinds of things, from wine to olive oil.
Studying those left in shipwrecks could tell us much about the trade, agriculture and climate of historic societies - except that the contents wash away over the centuries, leaving archaeologists with glorified empty bottles.
Now a team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US and Lund University in Sweden has performed the first successful extraction of DNA from the remains of a 2,400-year-old shipwreck off the Greek island of Chios.
The wooden merchant ship sank in the fourth century BC, coming to rest 70 metres down.
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the 08/01/2008 at 02:47 :
 Shipwreck stories
from TheAge.com.au
Going, going, gone ... Vin Maskell reports there are almost 200 sunken ships in the waters of Port Phillip Bay.
When the party hire boat the Maheno sank near the mouth of the Yarra River two weeks before Christmas, it joined a long list of vessels that have come to grief in the not-so-benign waters of Port Phillip Bay, not far from the beaches that Melburnians flock to over summer.
Heritage Victoria estimates there are 130 shipwrecks in the bay, with a further 50 at the narrow Port Phillip Heads between Point Lonsdale and Point Nepean. In the bay itself, these include the 19th-century warship HMVS Cerberus, an 1890s wooden pleasure yacht, cargo boats and passenger ferries.
Five people died when the steel steamer the Kakariki collided with another steamer, the Caradale, off Williamstown at 11pm on January 29, 1937. The Kakariki sank within minutes and later salvage operations were hampered by the vessel being stuck in four metres of mud.
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the 04/01/2008 at 03:48 :
Ancient civilisation is found under Kyrgyz lake
by Nikolai Lukashov
An international archaeological expedition to Lake Issyk Kul, high in the Kyrgyz mountains, proves the existence of an advanced civilisation 25 centuries ago, equal in development to the Hellenic civilisations of the northern coast of the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea) and the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.
The expedition resulted in sensational finds, including the discovery of major settlements, presently buried underwater. The data and artifacts obtained, which are currently under study, apply the finishing touches to the many years of exploration in the lake, made by seven previous expeditions
The addition of a previously unknown culture to the treasury of history extends the idea of the patterns and regularities of human development.
Kyrgyz historians, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice president of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences, worked side by side with Russian colleagues, lead by historian Svetlana Lukashova and myself.
All the Russians involved were experienced skin-divers and members of the Russian Confederation of Underwater Sports. We were responsible for the work done under water.
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the 01/01/2008 at 11:38 :
 The Lake of the Nazi Gold
by Hartmut Kaiser
In the final days of the Third Reich, some Nazi officers loaded gold, documents and counterfeit British currency (pounds) into army trucks in Berlin, Germany, and drove south toward the Alps.
Some Nazi remnants -- a gold urn, personal seals, etc. -- have since been found in Bavarian and Austrian lakes such as Walchensee (Bavaria) and Altausee (Austria). Yet most of the Nazi's gold treasure is still missing. Many people believe that it was dumped into Lake Toplitz at the time of the downfall of the Nazi empire. The story of lake Toplitz has inspired many authors and filmmakers as well as treasure hunters who dived in the lake in search of the missing gold.
The Nazis had planned to destabilize the British economy by dropping counterfeit British pounds from airplanes over the country -- a plan they never carried out. Some of this counterfeit currency has been found by diving expeditions in Lake Toplitz. Other lakes in Bavaria and Austria are supposed to contain also Nazi gold treasures, yet nobody knows the details. Nor does anybody know what happened to the Nazis who transported the gold and secret documents.
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the 29/12/2007 at 12:50 :
Ancient merchant boat arrives at purpose-built museum
from China News
An 800-year-old Chinese merchant ship loaded with precious trading goods was moved to its purpose-built museum on Friday in Guangdong Province, five days after being raised from the sea.
The intricate salvage process, which involved constructing a special container around the 5,000-ton Nanhai (South China Sea) No. 1, finished with the delivery of the 30 meter wooden vessel to its "Crystal Palace" at the Marine Silk Road Museum in Yangjiang.
The glass pool featured a water temperature, pressure and other environmental conditions that were the same as where the ship had rested on the sea floor for centuries.
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