SOS Central

There will be a NAS1 course held in Hamilton, June 11th to the 13th.

For more details please see this flyer;

SOS Membership Form

Additional details will be added to the flyer as they become avaliable.

The first independently run NAS “Intro and Part 1,  Foreshore and Underwater Archaeology” course was run on July 3, 4 and 5th 2009.  There were thirteen enthusiastic students and four instructors (Tutors). As a new training partner of the Nautical Archaeology Society (Portsmouth, UK), Save Ontario Shipwrecks has embarked on a ambitious endeavour, training avocational divers to survey and record shipwrecks.

NAS 1 Students Hard at Work

Friday evening the students were introduced to their instructors, SOS, NAS and the course. After reviewing a case study on techniques used to survey the Southern Trail by Liquid Archaeology, the students became engrossed in a presentation and discussion on ships and ship construction. This segment brings into focus what many divers have been seeing underwater for years and prepared them to be able to accurately describe the features they would survey.

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