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The Marine Archaeology Field School will be held July 10-19, 1995 and is
conducted by Duncan Mathewson, the director of the National Center for
Shipwreck Research in Islamorada, Florida. The survey headquarters is Island
Bay Resort, MM 92.5 (bayside), Tavernier, Florida (305) 852-4087. The 6 pack
boat is next to the motel. Brad Neat also has another boat and amphibian
airplane. The cost is $499 for 4 days, $799 for 7 days, and $999 for 10 days.
I have taken the 10 day package for the last three summers and been involved
in side scan sonar, magnetometry, surveying and mapping, artifact preservation
, making photo-mosaics and video-mosaics, library research, etc. Duncan
usually takes the group down to Mel Fishers museum to see the exhibits and
talk to archaeologists in the labs where the public doesn't go. If you want
your diving activity to be more focussed than looking at 10 million fishes,
try underwater archaeology. You also can get a Padi card (merit badge) for
becoming a para-archaeologist. Remember that there are over 100,000 shipwrecks
in the world and only 100 u/w archaeologists in the U.S. Not all of these
people are active divers, and they need recreation divers or tech divers to
help them! Stormin Norman
the motel along with another boat.
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