Dive & Dig

In the latest episode of Dive & Dig News we spoke to Rawda Abdelhady from the Raquda Foundation about their amazing project to document the tangible and intangible heritage of a remarkable coastal community in El Max, Alexandria, which is under threat from development. #coastalcommunities #intangibleheritage #maritimearchaeology #Egypt #Alexandria #ElMax

We talk to ocean scientist Dr Nic Flemming about his new book - Apollonia on my Mind - The memoir of a paraplegic ocean scientist. The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming’s memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits...

This week we talk to Brendan Foley and Gitte Ingvardson from Lund University about their use of new scientific techniques to uncover ancient coins from the wreck of the 15th Century royal Danish warship Gribshunden. This remarkably well-preserved wreck in the Baltic contains a fascinating array of artefacts, here they tell us about the techniques they are using to uncover more about this significa...

To mark International Women’s Day the University of Helsinki held a roundtable discussion as part of their global conversations in maritime archaeology, this discussion was on Women in Maritime Archaeology - Four different women, four different stories, and four equally passionate and culturally diverse narratives. Hosted by Dr Lucy Semaan from the Honor Frost Foundation team in Lebanon, we spoke...

Beirut is one of Lebanon’s most extensively excavated, surveyed, and published coastal archaeological sites. The horrific explosion at the port city on August 4th, 2020 left over 200 dead, 6500 injured, and displaced over 300,000 people after catastrophic damage to residential and commercial structures up to 20 km from the point of detonation. The blast caused irreparable damage not only to the mo...

The first episode in our exciting new 'news' series! Bringing you the latest discoveries from the world of maritime archaeology. In this episode, Dr Timmy Gambin reveals what they have discovered from a human tooth found on a 2,700-year-old shipwreck! 

Join maritime archaeologist, Stella Demesticha from the University of Cyprus to hear what she has found on the Mazotos shipwreck off the coast of Cyprus.  She describes amphorae – ceramic containers of the ancient world - what they contained and how they were made.  Together with Cynthianne Spiteri – a scientist who analyses lipids,  oil and fat compounds from inside amphorae, they are able to ide...

Discover how maritime archaeologist, Jon Adams has used re-breathers and mixed gases to allow archaeological divers to go deeper and stay longer on sites.  Jon also explains how digital technologies have revolutionised maritime archaeological investigation, allowing research to be conducted more accurately and efficiently underwater.  We no longer need to spend hours drawing by hand, today new tec...

Learn how MIT engineer, Marty Klein developed the now widely used side-scan sonar to find shipwrecks. First developed for the military during WW II – it uses sound to detect ships and other lost objects in the ocean depths. While searching for the elusive monster Nessie in Scotland’s Loch Ness, he went on to find the USS Thresher – the Wellington bomber that plunged into the loch on a training mis...

Discover how Dr Jon Henderson, maritime archaeologist is approaching the global challenges that currently face maritime cultural heritage and coastal communities. Jon is part of the Ocean Decade Heritage Network and describes how the Network is working towards improving the health of our oceans by tackling unsustainable fishing, loss of coastal sites, pollution and climate change.  Another key pro...

Join Helen Farr, maritime archaeologist as she takes us to islands in the Southeast Asian Sea to learn more about how early humans navigated the oceans 65,000 years ago, journeying from the Flores Islands of Indonesia to the northern part of Australia. #maritimearchaeology #earlyseafaring #climatechange #australia #indonesia #helenfarr 

Our Dive & Dig In Depth series contains some of the full interviews from series one of Dive & Dig. Starting with Philippe Cousteau, explorer and environmental advocate. He describes how the aqualung, co-invented by his grandfather Jacques Cousteau, changed exploration of the water depths forever - allowing us to swim freely like fish - and that the oceans are not full of monsters and krake...

Bettany Hughes and Lucy Blue are joined by Helen Farr to discuss the influence of the early navigators and Phillip Beale reflects on his project to create a replica Phoenician galley. Tanzanian marine archaeologist Claudia Lubao aka singer Chemical, alerts her followers to the value of maritime culture and Phillipe Cousteau warns of the potentially damaging impact of climate change on underwater h...

Bettany Hughes and Lucy Blue dive into the world of underwater archaeology and are joined by Timmy Gambin who is diving on a Phoenician shipwreck in 110m of water. In this episode we find out what happens when a ship sinks and what cutting-edge techniques help archaeologists analyse the remains and tell the story today.  We also discover how the Phoenician's developed trade in textile dyes and wha...

Bettany Hughes and Lucy Blue dive into the world of underwater archaeology and are joined by Timmy Gambin, David Abulafia and Claude Doumet-Serhal.  In this episode, they discuss how Phoenician traders dramatically opened up the Mediterranean, explore the harbours that they traded through and discover how changing sea-levels over time can submerge ancient civilisations.  #maritimehistory #history...

Bettany Hughes and Lucy Blue are joined by explorer Bob Ballard as they journey beneath the waves. They find out how sonar and remote vehicles have been used to discover shipwrecks such as the Titanic and the potential for many more sites yet to be discovered   #titanic #maritimehistory #history #marinearchaelogy #diving #scuba #bettanyhughes #honorfrost #bobballard #philippecousteau #underwaterhi...

Bettany Hughes and Lucy Blue dive into the world of underwater archaeology, joined by Jacques Cousteau's grandson Philippe. They discover how technology has changed since the invention of the aqualung and explore how divers are now reaching depths of over 100 metres. #titanic #maritimehistory #history #marinearchaelogy #diving #scuba #bettanyhughes #honorfrost #bobballard #philippecousteau #underw...

In “Dive and Dig”, a five part podcast series from the Honor Frost Foundation, historian and presenter Professor Bettany Hughes , has teamed up with maritime archaeologist Dr Lucy Blue to tell the  intriguing stories of some of the most exciting underwater discoveries of the last 50 years.   Maritime archaeologists, forensic science, and the latest technologies are cracking the codes of ancient sh...