The first working dive of the 2014 expedition took place on the Antikythera shipwreck today, with lead divers Alexander Sotiriou and Phil Short laying a mooring line and conducting a metal detector survey.
Phil Short on the Antikythera wreck site. Phil and Alexander Sotiriou spent an hour on the bottom today, diving on closed circuit rebreathers with a helium mix. After today, they’ve probably clocked up more bottom time on the Antikythera shipwreck than anyone else in history.
Conducting a metal detector survey of the Antikythera wreck site.
A number of interesting targets were located, as well as the retrieval of a small metal object, which may be ancient.
Stay tuned for more…