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Above: El Morro, the famous mountain in Monte Cristi |
Welcome
To The News From the Deep
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this newsletter section. In all there are about 188 pages on this web site including many of the one page newsletters as well as the four latest pdf newsletters. I see this newsletter as a vehicle for information, news and articles from everyone in the team.
We are delighted to announce that ADMAT-FRANCE is continuing to provide good archival research with a number of new French wrecks being discovered in the French archives by Florence Prudhomme. They are very close to discovering the identity of Further research into The Tile Wreck. All the French research is then collated at ADMAT-FRANCE's office which is in the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in Paris.
Artefact handling classes on Sunday afternoons will resume in January 2012, in Toronto and anyone interested in attending please contact me. The Team continues to analyses French artefacts as they have access to the specialised Museum laboratories which enable us to conduct scientific research on the artefacts and hull structures. The information is then analysed by the ADMAT scientific committee.
Our Dominican Republic Maritime Archaeological Field School, is continuing in 2012 on The Tile Wreck which may have sunk in Monte Cristi in the 1720's. In addition we will be looking at the new Island Wreck site. This will be a unique field school project and information is on this web site www.admat.org.uk/tw1.htm . We are currently taking provisional bookings for last week in May 2012 through till end of June for this wreck site, so if you are interested in further information, please contact me on: maritime_archaeology@yahoo.co.uk
So to all the members, Museums, Universities, Archaeologists, Divers, Volunteers and Companies, I welcome you all to take part in any way you can. Whether this be to provide equipment, finance, manpower and support or to actually take part in the archaeological work; all assistance is greatly appreciated. I know that together we can save these important archaeological wreck sites placing the information and rescued artefacts in museums for generations to enjoy. In doing so we are preserving and protecting the underwater cultural heritage of the Caribbean and the world.
I look forward to taking part in these exciting project with
you!
Simon Q. Spooner
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Latest photographs from the Summer 2010 project click here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Spooner's team concluded a very sucessful field school in July 2010 which was filmed by Thalassa a France 3 national French TV station. A number of important artefacts were located including a pewter plats
This continues ADMAT's work surveing a number of historic shipwrecks for their Government.
Any person who wishes to be part of these historic surveys, must contact Dr. Spooner ASAP as places are extremly limited. He can be contacted on maritime_archaeology@yahoo.co.uk
Above Top: Maritime Archaeologist Jennifer finmds an intact French wine bottle from the Le Casirir wreck site, which sunk in 1829. Above: The Team depart on another exciting day.
Above: The pewter plata is uncoverd on The Tile Wreck.
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ADMAT's
returns to The Tile Wreck in Monte Cristi on the North Coast of The Dominican
Republic in May and June 2012
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