Beneath the Seven Seas: Adventures with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology – edited by George F. Bass Tony’s had this book for ages, and it’s been lying next to my side of the bed waiting for… Continue reading…
The inaugural OMSAC Treasure Hunt was held on 9 July at the Cape Boat and Ski Boat Club at Miller’s Point – their very exposed slipway faces the opposite direction to the one we usually… Continue reading…
I grew up loaning dusty hardcover Lawrence G. Green books from Vredehoek library, where the librarians must have thought I was either faking it or had no hobbies whatsoever apart from reading, given how frequently… Continue reading…
Three Miles Down: A Hunt for Sunken Treasure – James Hamilton-Paterson I struggled a bit with this book. James Hamilton-Paterson has a highly literary style, which I enjoyed in Seven Tenths. In this book, however,… Continue reading…
Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa – Malcolm Turner Thousands of ships have wrecked along the South African coastline by now – when this book was published in 1988 the tally as recorded in this… Continue reading…
Maidstone Rock is an infrequently-dived site in the offshore region of Seaforth and Boulders Beach. The boat rides from Miller’s Point or Long Beach are only a few minutes (shorter from Long Beach). Grant took… Continue reading…
Hello everyone This newsletter is late because we have just attended an extremely interesting talk at the Two Oceans Aquarium on biomimicry… Bio what? Google it, but it is a fascinating look at how man… Continue reading…
Hello everyone This was the sight that we experienced at Long Beach while kitting up for a days diving. Finally a weekend of diving!!!! We had really good weather this weekend and despite a rather… Continue reading…
This is an excerpt of two episodes from the Discovery Channel series Treasure Quest, which recounts the activities of Odyssey Marine Exploration as they travel the English Channel one summer, looking for valuable shipwrecks to… Continue reading…
Odyssey Marine Exploration is a listed company (Nasdaq: OMEX) that conducts deep-sea salvage operations on shipwrecks believed to be valuable (in money terms). They use side scan sonar to map the sea floor, expert eyes… Continue reading…
