Excavation Continues

20/09/2017

[:en]The amazing weather window continues and team in logging one of the most productive field season yet. Typical dive rotations include staggered archeologists / guardians who have a bottom time between 40 and 70 minutes with a total run time of 2 to 3 hours. In addition an imaging team jumps between the rotations capturing both still and 4K video.

The team briefing outlining dive teams, objectives, safety issues and planned run time occurs every day. (Photo by Brett Seymour EUA / ARGO NGO)
Dr. Theotokis Theodhoulou conducts his pre-dive checks before entering the water. (Photo by Michael Tsimperopoulos, EUA / AGO NGO)
Paolo Iglic hands a bail-out cylinder to Alexandros Sotiriou. (Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA / ARGO NGO)
Gemma Smith descends with the cliff face of Antikythera in the background.(Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA / ARGO NGO)
Evan Kovacs documents the excavation. (Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA / ARGO NGO)
Excavation among the rock sea bottom. (Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA / ARGO NGO)

Dr Brendan Foley and Gemma Smith excavate a sand pocket on the site.(Photo by Brett Seymour, EUA / ARGO NGO)
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