UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY

Students are presenting us the mysteries of Atlantis City.

MARITIME ARCHAELOGY.mp4

-By Nikunj Soni (SMSMB)

Fully Underwater Cities

Did you know that there are several places where you can find fully underwater cities and towns with a lot of human remains? Interesting, right? Let's take a look at some of them.

Baiae, Italy

Hedonistic Romans flocked to Bahia. The city was also known as Las Vegas in ancient Rome. It sank due to active volcanic activity in the area. Located at a depth of 20 feet, 2,000-year-old remains have been found in good condition around the city.

Port Royal, Jamaica

One of Jamaica's oldest neighborhoods, the city was partially flooded. Although the city is not well maintained and not in its best condition, the waters surrounding Port Royal are an archaeological gold mine filled with stories of the early days of British occupation.

Lost Villages ; Ontario, Canada

Lost Villages has a total of 10 Canadian cities. These cities were all former municipalities of Cornwall and Osnabruck, Ontario. These two areas were flooded after the construction of the aqueduct in 1958. To this day, sidewalks and buildings are visible in some areas above the water surface.

Pavlopetri, Greece

Pavlopetri is considered the oldest underwater city in history. The city is located on the southern coast of Lakonia, Greece. The city's floods are believed to have occurred about 5,000 years ago.

It is a very valuable archaeological site .

-By Bhavya Gupta (SMSMB)

Sea archaic exploration by district Pacific

Attempt pot from a nineteenth century whaling transport that destroyed on French Frigate Shoals (Pacific Ocean)

Jumpers investigated a disaster area site at Pearl and Hermes atoll

An illustration of sea paleo history in the Pacific sea, is the revelation of the disaster area of Two Brothers, found in 2008 by a group of marine archeologists chipping away at an undertaking for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The character of the boat was not promptly known so it was known as the "Shark Island Whaler"; the boat's distinguishing proof as Two Brothers was reported by NOAA on February 11, 2011, the 188th commemoration of her sinking.[13] The disaster area is the primary revelation of a destroyed Nantucket whaling ship.

Mediterranean region

In the Mediterranean region, oceanic archaeologists have examined a few antiquated societies. Prominent early Iron Age wrecks incorporate two Phoenician boats of c. 750 BC that foundered off Gaza with cargoes of wine in amphoras. The group of the U.S. Naval force profound submergence research submarine NR-1 found the locales in 1997. In 1999 a group drove by Robert Ballard and Harvard University prehistoric studies Professor Lawrence Stager examined the disaster areas.

Broad examination has been done on the Mediterranean and Aegean shores of Turkey. Complete unearthings have been performed on a few wrecks from the Classical, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods.

Sea archeological investigations in Italy enlighten the maritime and oceanic exercises of the Etruscans, Greek settlers, and Romans. After the second century BC, the Roman armada managed the Mediterranean and effectively stifled theft. During this Pax Romana, seaborne exchange expanded fundamentally all through the district. However cruising was the most secure, quickest, and most productive strategy for transportation in the old world, a few fragmentary level of journeys finished in wreck. With the altogether expanded ocean traffic during the Roman period came a comparing expansion in wrecks. These disaster areas and their freight stays offer looks through season of the economy, culture, and legislative issues of the antiquated world. Especially helpful to archeologists are investigations of amphoras, the fired steel trailers utilized in the Mediterranean district from the fifteenth century BC through the Medieval time frame.

Notwithstanding numerous disclosures in the ocean, a few wrecks have been inspected in lakes. Most eminent are Caligula's pleasure bursts in Lake Nemi, Italy. The Nemi ships and other wreck destinations every so often yield objects of one of a kind creative worth. For example, the Antikythera wreck contained a stunning assortment of marble and bronze sculptures including the Antikythera Youth. Found in 1900 by Greek wipe jumpers, the boat likely sank in the first century BC and may have been dispatched by the Roman general, Sulla, to convey goods back to Rome. The wipe jumpers additionally recuperated from the disaster area the renowned Antikythera component, accepted to be a cosmic number cruncher. Further instances of fantastic masterpieces recuperated from the ocean bottom are the two "bronzi" found in Riace (Calabria), Italy. In the instances of Antikythera and Riace, in any case, the antiquities were recuperated without the immediate interest of oceanic archeologists.

-By Harsh (SMSMB)

RMS TITANIC

The most famous ship in the history for never making it to its destination.

RMS Titanic, its story is well known. It was a British Passenger Liner and was operated by the White Star Line. RMS Titanic was considered to be the safest ship of its time, one of the largest, most magnificent ships. It was called the 'Unsinkable'. The incident occurred in the North Atlantic Ocean, where the Titanic collided with an iceberg. It started its journey from England and was set to New York City. It sank approximately at 2: 20 early morning.

The tragedy made headlines throughout the world. It was the inspiration behind the Oscar winning legendary movie, which is close to everyone's heart, 'Titanic'.

The wrecks have been sitting more than 2 miles below the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean since 1912. It was not found until the year 1985.

No one has found any human remains in the wreck( according to the company[which owns the salvage rights]).

Approximately, a thousand and Five hundred passengers and crew members perished. Due to the massive number of casualties that occurred ,it is one of the most tragic wrecks till date.

-By Janhwee Thapliyal (SMSMB)

MYSTERIOUS CREATURES OF THE OCEANS

-By Aditya Jhamb (SMSMB)

MARINE TIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS

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-By Charvi Gupta (SMSMB)

BERMUDA TRIANGLE

The Bermuda Triangle or the Devil’s Triangle, believed to be an urban legend which talks about a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircrafts and ships have disappeared. The reason was never found. The mystery of this scary Bermuda Triangle remains unsolved. This Devil’s Triangle has been blamed for the disappearance of thousands of individuals within the past decades. The ocean has always been a mysterious place to humans, and when foul weather or poor navigation is involved, it is a really deadly place. This is true all over the world. There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency within the Bermuda Triangle than in the other large, well-travelled area of the ocean. There are some facts about this Devil’s Triangle:

  1. There are many storms and hurricanes that passed through the Bermuda Triangle, these dangerous storms claimed many ships.

  2. There is some evidence to suggest that the Bermuda Triangle is a place where a “magnetic” compass sometimes points towards “true” north, as opposed to “magnetic” north.
    -By Tanishka Manoj (SMSMB)