A team of archeologist from eight Carry Nation frame the Mediterranean Sea has come together to scrutinize shipwrecks sitting at the bottom of the water body sitting between them .
The researchers hail from Algeria , Croatia , Egypt , France , Italy , Morocco , Spain , and Tunisia , and on their recent mission , coordinate by UNESCO , they find three novel shipwrecks . One wreck dates to between 100 BCE and 200 CE and two appointment from around the turn of events of the 20th century . The researchers salute their findings today in a pressure conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris .
Using multibeam sonar and Remotely operate Underwater Vehicles ( ROVs ) , the archeologist map the seafloor and the inauspicious vessels ride on it . They specifically investigated the continental shelves off Tunisia and Sicily , as part of trenchant projects led by Tunisia and Italy , respectively .
The Keith Reef lurking under the Mediterranean Sea’s surface.Photo:UNESCO / Angel Fitor
The newly discovered shipwreck sit near Keith Reef , a particularly treacherous part of the Skerki Bank . The banking company is bordered by Sicily to the Frederick North and Tunisia to its southwest , according to a UNESCOrelease . Keith Reef almost touch on the Mediterranean ’s open at points , making it unmanageable for ships ( both ancient and modernistic ) to navigate . Some ships clearly failed , as evidenced by the new research .
The shallow Witwatersrand is uniquely situated in one of the Mediterranean ’s busiest marine route , which has been trafficked for millennia . It ’s no surprise that ships have drop down there — nor thatlooters have find it a happy hunt ground .
“ When we get the new ship it was a [ feeling ] of relief because of all the movement we have all put in and that there are still thing to learn from such a to a great extent looted area and that there is still something to protect , ” Alison Faynot , an archaeologist with UNESCO , toldThe National .
Remains of a wreck on the Skerki Bank off Tunisia.Image:DRASSM UNESCO
The investigation off Sicily surveil in the footfall of marine archaeologists Robert Ballard and Anna McCann , wholocated eight run aground wreckson the Italian continental shelf between 1998 and 2000 .
The multibeam echo sounder was used to produce a photogrammetric map of the Skerki Bank and it turn up several anomalies on the seafloor which ferment out to be archeologic stiff .
Using the newresearch vas Alfred Merlin , 28 scientist from the aforesaid countries find a 242 - metrical foot ( 74 - metre ) motorized wreck and a 50 - metrical foot ( 15 - meter ) wooden wreck , both dated to the former nineteenth or former 20th C , as well as a 50 - metrical unit merchant vas from ancientness .
A scan showing an unidentified shipwreck found during the expedition.Image: DRASSM UNESCO
The squad also inspect three romish wreck off the glide of Italy ; two or so 1st - century merchandiser vessels laden with amphorae , I. F. Stone , ceramic , and common ware , and a first - C BCE loading ship bearing similar load .
unexampled technology is improving marine archeologist ’ power to image and catalogue sites regardless of their deepness . Last month , a different teamstitched together 700,000 images of the Titanic(ever heard of it ? ) to produce a newly sharp 3D manikin of the sail ship , which sink off Newfoundland in 1912 .
late wreck - finding missions have also turned upthe crash of Ernest Shackleton ’s Endurancesome 9,800 feet beneath the aerofoil of the Weddell Sea , and theupright , inviolate remains of the 1894 crash Ironcladat the bottom of Lake Huron .
Photo: DRASSM UNESCO
Arthur , the new ROV deploy on the mission , can plunk more than 8,200 ft ( 2,500 meters ) .
The question of the Skerki Bank was the first survey mission in this zone , UNESCO official said during the press conference . Though they did not recover any material — that was not the intention of the reconnoitring mission — it provides more grounds of the cultural inheritance that remains preserved at the bottom of the sea , and needs to be protected .
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