INSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - Bodrum, Turkey |
| SURVEYS |
| Besides excavating shipwrecks, INA also conducts surveys to locate other shipwrecks for study. A survey team, under the direction of Cemal Pulak and Tufan Turanli, finds remains of many ships every year. On the right, Dr. George F.Bass, president of the Institute, is inspecting the marble elements of a Byzantine church which formed the cargo of a ship north of Bodrum. |  |
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Besides a 5th century wreck, the team discovered other sunken treasures in the area. One of them is the 4th century B.C. wreck. Unfortunately, the ship has landed on rocks at a depth of 26 meters, and therefore not much of the hull has been preserved. Nevertheless, cargo consisting of more than 300 amphoras will interest many scholars around the world. |
| Near Knidos, at a site shown by the sponge diver Cumhur Llik to INA first survey in 1973, the group revisited the wreckage of a cargo of tiles. Half in sand and half on rock, the cargo mostly consisted of tiles and some pottery. There still was not any indication of the hull. |  |
Text and pictures by Tufan Turanli
