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on this site. Older additions since 1996 are on a separate
page. New documents in Swedish and Danish are in a separate
list.
Sep '02: Sadana Island shipwreck, Cheryl Ward
Aug '02: National Archaeology Bodies Weigh in to Support Newport's Save Our Ship Campaign
Jul '02: Arqueologia subacuatica en cercanias a la Isla de Lobos, Atilio Nasti
Jul '02: Gdansk Copper Wreck, Margret Sloan
Jul '02: Caligula's Nemi Ships, Margret Sloan
Jul '02: Tecnología en Arqueología Subacuática, Atilio Nasti
Jun '02: La Méduse, 1816
Jun '02: Underwater Archaeology Shipwreck Technology, Atilio Nasti
May '02: Appeal for the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology
May '02: Info text in Hewrew
Apr '02: Debate, protection, legislation, separate topic
Apr '02: Sunken cities, new topic
Apr '02: Society and Sail, Christer Westerdahl
Apr '02: Naval battles, new topic
Apr '02: Deep Baltic mystery wreck, masts standing
Apr '02: The Plague and the Northeast, Christer Westerdahl
Apr '02: Laser bathymetry
Apr '02: s/s Fråck, sunk in 1915
Jan '02: Separate topics under Tools & Technique: Search tools and technique, Investigation, Salvage, Deep sea, Dating, Conservation, Software
Jan '02: USS Maine, 1898, including a video
Jan '02: Conservation of the Mary Rose bronze guns, Martin Read
Jan '02: EU project to protect underwater cultural heritage
Jan '02: Underwater archaeology in Latvia 2001, Voldemars Rains, Jurmala Museum
Jan '02: Corrosion of aluminum in sea water, Pete Johnson
Jan '02: Vrouw Maria, updated
Nov '01: Leather objects from Spanish troopship Salvador, Atilio Nasti
Nov '01: Elementos de cuero recuperados del naufragio del navío español Salvador, Atilio Nasti
Oct '01: The Men Who Stole the Stars, George F. Bass
Oct '01: Between frugality and eclecticism – management of an archaeological cornucopia, Thijs J. Maarleveld
Sep '01: Nordic Underwater Archaeology Message Board offers an electronic conference and discussion / debate forum.
Aug '01: Separate entries for Submerged structures, Bog finds & logboats, Harbours, and Ancient shipping.
Jul '01: Separate entry for Central America
May '01: Version for handheld PDAs can be subscribed.
May '01: Archäologische Kulturdenkmale und Denkmalschutz am Bodensee, Helmut Schlichtherle
May '01: Sture, wreck video 
May '01: The wreck at
"gubbens hôla", wreck video
May '01: Navens
Fyr,
wreck video
May '01: Slätteskär,
wreck video
Apr '01: Hacía la normalización de la arqueologia subaquática en España, Xavier Nieto
Mar '01: HMS Agamemnon, Atilio Nasti 
Feb '01: Steinzeit in der Wismar-Bucht (Submerged settlements in the Bay of Wismar), Harald Lübke
Feb '01: Resolution from IKUWA 99, Germany
Feb '01: Info text in Hungarian
Feb '01: San Pedro de Alcantara research history notes, (English / français / português)
Feb '01: Drilling into bedrock for 3D survey – Spits e rocha mãe, San Pedro de Alcantara (English / português)
Feb '01: Programa San Pedro de Alcantara (1786) (em português)
Feb '01: La Tyrolienne de Peniche (San Pedro de Alcantara 1786)
Jan '01: Conclusions from San Pedro de Alcantara fieldwork 1999, Jean-Yves Blot
Jan '01: Peruvian antropology in Portugal, Jean-Yves Blot
Jan '01: História de San Pedro de Alcantara, Jean-Yves Blot (em português)
Jan '01: Campanha 1998, San Pedro de Alcantara (em português)
Jan '01: New entry page from domain www.subarch.com
Jan '01: HMS Pallas, 1783, Paulo Monteiro (900
kb PDF)
Jan '01: Pewter Plates from São Julião
da Barra, Filipe Castro (1 MB PDF)
Jan '01: Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, 1804,
Filipe Castro (60 kb PDF) 
(em português)
Jan '01: Le Naufrage des Portugais sur les côtes de Saint-Jean-de-Luz et d'Arcachon (1627), presentation
Jan '01: Arqueonáutica, uma associação pioneira no estudo e salvaguarda do património arqueológico náutico, Filipe Castro
Jan '01: San Pedro de Alcantara 1999 (em português)
Jan '01: Wrecks of the Atlantic, new topic
Older additions since 1996
News in the world
To stay updated with the latest news, check press news, Anthropology in
the News, Archaeologica News
or MUNA
news.
Below are some older news texts:
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Aftenposten, Norway, 6 May 1999:
The Trondheim University (NTTU) wishes to hire the US nuclear sub NR1 searching for shipwrecks in the Trondheim Fiord. The national nuclear safety authority has not yet given the required permission for a reactor powered vessel to be used. But a permission might be granted after due formalities, taking about a month from now.
April 1999:
I have now tried the AltaVista translation service, from Italian to English. Actually it's quite good and the result is legible. One funny error though: Relitti (wrecks) was translated to "property left at death".
March 1999:
Indiana University, USA, has prepared an underwater guide about the San Pedro shipwreck from 1733. Recreational divers get the guide printed on a slate to take along during the dive. Well done!
Quoted from Associated Press, July 1998:
17th Century Shipwrecks Found Sunday, July 19, 1998
SCHLESWIG, Germany (AP) -- Following up on a 139-year-old tip, archaeologists have found nine shipwrecks dating from the 17th century buried in mud at a Baltic Sea inlet in northern Germany. The 30- to 50-foot boats are believed to be from a military fleet that sank during the Thirty Years' War, a series of political and religious conflicts in Europe from 1618 to 1648.The team was led to the find by a note written in 1859 and found in the state's museum archives, said Willi Kramer, head of the Schleswig-Holstein state archaeology department. In the note, royal surveyor Wilhelm von Sommer said that an unusually violent storm on Feb. 11, 1859 drove water from the Schlei inlet, near Schleswig, and partially uncovered a number of old wrecks. The archaeological team, which began searching in 1996, found nine boats buried under about six feet of mud in the inlet. Kramer said Thursday that he did not rule out finding more boats in the area. The exact age of the ships is to be confirmed only after they are excavated from the inlet, Kramer said.
National Museum of Denmark, 1997:
In December 1996 the National Museum received a report from a professional diver, Gert Normann, of Holstebro, that during a cable inspection in the Limfjord near Aggersund he had found the wreck of a ship, 12 m long, from the Viking Age or Middle Ages, lying upside down and only slightly damaged. Accompanying this report was a detailed video film of the wreck which made it possible to date it immediately to the Middle Ages. Since there is active sea-bed erosion at the site the wreck is at risk, and the finder was therefore asked to bring up a few pieces of boards from the wreck for dating, and to carry out measures for the provisional protection of the wreck from further damage. The dendro dating of the boards showed that the ship was probably built in the mid 13th century and it is lying there now as a challenge, ready for genuine excavation and salvaging so that it can avoid suffering the same fate as another wreck in the same area some years ago. In that case the sea-bed erosion exposed an exceptionally well-preserved hull from an 18th century sloop, but before it was possible to document it in detail a winter-storm split the wreck and reduced it to matchwood. The scientific interest attached to the new wreck-find with its preserved upper parts, which are usually missing, as in e.g. the Roskilde ships, is so great that this story must not be allowed to repeat itself. How such a project, in water 12 metres deep and in a sea-channel with heavy traffic and strong currents, can be realised and financed has not yet been established.
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