With Titanic mania sweeping Southampton this month in memory of the 100th anniversary of its demise, Dr Helen Farr will provide a whirlwind tour of the development of seafaring and maritime activity from its origins in the Pleistocene, and our ancestors’ first open water crossings, to the cutting edge technology that maritime archaeologists …
Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz,  a PhD student in maritime archaeology here in Southampton, will be presenting his paper on Tides across space at the CAA 2012 conference this week. Read more
Dr Lucy Blue takes part in CNN discussion of the historical shipwreck salvage business in the US.  Deep sea treasure hunters may evoke storybook images of swashbuckling buccaneers on daring ocean adventures.  For those in the rapidly expanding sector of marine archeology however, scouring the depths of the sea for sunken …