Anglo~Danish Maritime Archaeological Team

The Team

Above: Christine on the Le Casimir Wreck in the Dominican Republic.

Christine Nielsen,   A Short Biography

Christine Nielsen is the Danish co-founder of ADMAT, and ADMAT’s Vice President and Asst. Excavation Director. She is also co-creator, Director and the Secretary for ADMAT USA, as well as Vice-Président of ADMAT-France.

Christine initially studied terrestrial Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen, but fell in love with maritime archaeology after her first maritime archaeological fieldwork and has not looked back since.

Christine has worked on land excavations in Panayia Ematoussa in Cypress, Tel Jezrel  in Israel, and also taken part in the underwater excavation at Caeserea in Israel.

Christine is the ast. Excavation director working on the Tile Wreck, Carron Wreck, Faience Wreck and Le Casimir previously called the Perfume Wreck in the Dominican Republic. Christine also was responsible for ADMAT's St. Kitts Maritime Archaeological Project, where she was the Ast. Excavation director on the White House Bay Wreck a 1740's English Troop ship in  St Kitts.

Christine was also the Ast. Director on the Button Wreck. This is a possible 1770's wreck and is being surveyed for NOAA and FKNMS as part of ADMAT's Florida Maritime Archaeological Project.

Above: Christine holding a fiddler block from the French Carron Wreck, which may well have been a proto-type for America's first Frigates in 1740's to 1760's.

Below: Christine finding a military buckle on the White House Bay Wreck.

Above: Christine measuring the keel section of The Tile Wreck.