Sentences with phrase «ancient wrecks»

There are ancient wreck sites, underwater formations, and some excellent wildlife to be seen.

Close to shore, there was no hope of finding ancient wrecks because the sea floor was covered in a thick pile of sediments that had washed off the island.

In three seasons, he didn't find a single ancient wreck from any period, and only a scattering of artefacts.

Ballard has spent years searching for ancient wrecks and says that he has learned the importance of finding areas beyond the reach of fishermen — below about 600 meters, say, or close to undersea cables, which trawlers avoid.

Historians once assumed that the number of wrecks in the deep sea was negligible because ancient ships must have hugged the coastlines, but in the 1990s Ballard found eight ancient wrecks far from shore between the islands of Sicily and Sardinia (Foley was Ballard's graduate student at the time).

Cape Gelidonya was the first ancient wreck excavated in its entirety on the seabed, the first excavated by a diving archaeologist.

To maximize the chances of finding ancient wrecks, the team will hunt on open, flat areas in the lowest reaches of the sea, up to 6,000 metres deep.

Almost immediately, the divers located five ancient wrecks, ranging from around the second century BC to the ninth century AD.

The torpedo - shaped robot, nicknamed Gudgeon after a Second World War submarine, spent the first month of the field campaign surveying the entire sea floor north of Crete's main harbour, Heraklion, for any lumps and bumps that might signal an ancient wreck.

Although he is finding large numbers of ancient wrecks, he hasn't yet uncovered anything from the Bronze Age.

«So if we can find these ancient wrecks, we get a much clearer view of the very dim past.»

This is a great place to become a technical deep diver as many of the ancient wrecks are deep.

Exceptional in scale and scope, the exhibition tells the story of the ancient wreck of a vast ship, the «Unbelievable» (Apistos in the original Koine Greek), and presents what was discovered of its precious cargo: the impressive collection of Aulus Calidius Amotan — a freed slave better known as Cif Amotan II — which was destined for a temple dedicated to the sun.

Exceptional in scale and scope, the exhibition tells the story of the ancient wreck of a vast ship, the «Unbelievable» (Apistos in the original Koine Greek), and presents what was discovered of its cargo.

Nearly 10 years in the making, this new project from the internationally renowned YBA tells the story of the ancient wreck of a vast ship, the Unbelievable (known as Apistos in the original Koine Greek).

Some neighborhoods frown on keeping an old car parked on the road in front of a house, so if you have an ancient wreck, put it in the garage or leave it in the driveway.