Anglo~Danish Maritime Archaeological Team ADMAT

MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY & EDUCATION

Welcome to our web page

Anglo ~ Danish Maritime Archaeological Team, or A.D.M.A.T. for short, is a Specialist Maritime Archaeological Organization, with a scientific sub division in France called ADMAT- FRANCE. This is the non profit scientific arm of ADMAT; based at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris, départememt Préhistoire, UMR-CNRS 7194.

ADMAT is a non-profit educational scientific organization. Our aims are:

To conduct maritime archaeology in the Caribbean, assisting governments to survey and protect their underwater cultural heritage.

To assist volunteer - students to take part in maritime archaeological field excavations and surveys.

To protect the Underwater Maritime Cultural Heritage. We survey, record and advise on how to protect, shipwrecks from the old European empires.

Click here for a Welcome message from our President

ADMAT Projects

ADMAT is currently running projects in The Dominican Republic and Canada.

Dates for the 2013 Tile Wreck Project:

18th May - 1st June 2013

20th July to 10th August 2013

Information on The Tile Wreck click here.

Please contact us to be placed on the advance list for the project. Contact Dr. Spooner on maritime_archaeology@yahoo.co.uk . For further details click on The Tile Wreck link at the top of the page.

ADMAT returns from The Tile wreck Wreck Project, in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic. Some interesting discoveries were made in May and work will continue in July. A further understanding of the ships construction was made and interesting artefacts, like 18 grenades concreted still armed with the fuse in place.

More magnetometer work will be undertaken in July

Photographs and information from the 2012 Island Wreck survey

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Island Wreck Press release - Click Here