The Greek national research vessel AEGAEO, operated by the
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, will be the support ship
for Project PHAEDRA 2006. Click image for larger view and image
credit. Brendan Foley & Dimitris Sakellariou The scientific
goals of Project PHAEDRA 2006 are three-fold, and fit the
general categories of earth science, archaeology, and
engineering. For the archaeological component, under the
direction of archaeologists from the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture’s Ephorate [Department] of Underwater Antiquities (EUA),
the team will survey shipwreck sites selected by EUA discovered
during joint EUA – HCMR research cruises. A primary goal of the
project is to develop new techniques and data products for
archaeology, oceanography and geology. The team will deploy a
suite of in-situ sensors mounted aboard a precision navigated
robotic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Many of these sensors
have never before been utilized by archaeologists or very rarely
by oceanographers and geologists. The AUV’s sensor