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| The expedition camp was established in 1960 on a narrow
strip of beach with two freshwater springs, even though it was an hour’s sail from
the wreck site, between the Five Islands (Besadalar) off the end of the cape. (Photo: INA) |
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The expedition team lived for three months in their beach
camp, hoping that a rare summer south-wind would not send waves across the beach before
the completion of the excavation. (Photo: INA)
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| The expedition machine shop was sheltered by a torn
parachute scrounged from a U.S. Air Force base in Turkey. The only other shade was
provided by an old military mess tent.(Photo: INA) |
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| Several times during the summer, the expedition was almost
washed from its beach camp.(Photo: INA) |
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| Excavators dived from two sponge boats, including the
sponge-dragger Lutfi Celil. (Photo: INA) |
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| Excavators dived twice a day, for forty minutes in the
morning and twenty-eight in the afternoon, decompressing, as seen here, at the end of each
dive. (Photo: INA) |
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| Nearly vertical air-lifts, or suction pipes, removed sand
from parts of the site. (Photo: INA) |
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| On the seabed, excavators mapped the nearly invisible site
with meter tapes and surveyors’ ranging rods. (Photo: INA) |
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| Peter Throckmorton made a photo montage by swimming at a
fixed distance above the site, keeping his camera on a fixed plane with the aid of a
bull’s-eye level attached to it. (Photo: INA) |
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| Peter Dorrell, George Bass, Peter Throckmorton, and Honor
Frost (from left to right) work on the site plan in the camp "drafting room."
(Photo: INA) |
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| Once plotted on the plan, artifacts were placed in a
basket to be lifted to the surface by a cable attached to Lutfi Celil’s winch.
(Photo: INA) |
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| Claude Duthuit prepares to dive with an early model
underwater metal detector. (Photo: INA) |
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| The metal detector found that the ship sank slowly. After
tearing a hole in its hull on a sharp pinnacle of rock, it dropped a trail of artifacts a
hundred-meters long before it settled partly on the great boulder on the site. (Photo:
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| Peter Throckmorton (left) and George Bass examine the few
surviving bits of wooden hull that came from beneath the ingots in the gully. (Photo: INA) |
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| In the late 1980s, the Institute of Nautical
Archaeology’s survey vessel Virazon moored over the site where sponge boats
had been moored nearly three decades earlier. (Photo: INA) |
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| Claude Duthuit and George Bass of the original excavation
team prepare to dive on the site for the first time in more than a quarter century.
(Photo: INA) |
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