Black Sea '01 Expedition


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Black Sea Trade Project
University of Pennslyvania     (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
The umbrella organization above several Black Sea expeditions, headed by Fred Hiebert

Institute for Exploration (IFE)
Mystic Aquarium     (Mystic, Connecticut)
The American arm of the Black Sea 2001 expedition, headed by Robert Ballard

Institute of Oceanology (IO-BAS)
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences     (Varna, Bulgaria)
The Bulgarian arm of the Black Sea 2001 expedition, headed by Petko Dimitrov

Woods Hole Marine Systems, Inc (WHMSI)
(Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
The firm that builds the robots for the IFE, headed by Jim Newman

Deep Archaeology Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology     (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
A research group, led by David Mindell, developing the technology and methods to investigate deep sea archaeology

Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute     (Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
A group of ocean engineers who work with the IFE to develop unmanned robots

Institute for Nautical Archaeology (INA)
Texas A&M University     (College Station, Texas)
A great resource on wrecks and submerged habitations around the world
(Check out Port Royal -- a 17th century Jamaican pirate city which slid into the sea after an earthquake.)


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