Dive & Dig

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 mission. Besides its military applications, side scan sonar was also deployed after the Titanic tragedy to locate icebergs. We hear how Marty has worked with many of the leading ocean explorers, including MIT engineer, Doc Edgerton and ocean explorer Bob Ballard, who went on to discover the Titanic.
#titanic #lochnessmonster #maritimearchaeology #sidescansonar #martyklein #bobballard #mit #WWII 

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 project – Rising from the Depths – funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund, aims to show how maritime cultural heritage improves people’s lives in coastal communities in East Africa.  Joining him is Dr Ichumbaki from the University of Dar es Salam, Tanzania and his student, Claudia AKA Chemical, a rap artist using her music to promote the need to protect cultural heritage.  Together with local coastal communities, they have demonstrated the value of maritime heritage and how it can help deliver sustainable social and economic benefits!

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 krakens, but hold endless wonders. Following the legacy of his grandfather, Philippe is also a conservationist and calls on us all to become stewards of this precious resource, engaging young people via his non-profit EarthEcho.  

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 heritage.
 
#titanic #maritimehistory #history #marinearchaelogy #diving #scuba #bettanyhughes #honorfrost #underwaterhistory  #philipbeale #helenfarr #crystalelsafadi #jonhenderson #elgidiusichumbaki #claudialubao #nadanofal

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 what  rowers might have been smoking to help get them through the hard times!

#bettanyhughes #timmygambin #honorfrost #phoenicianhistory #ancienthistory #diving #maritimearchaeology #bobballard #titanic #nautical

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 #marinearchaelogy #diving #scuba #bettanyhughes #honorfrost #bobballard #philippecousteau #underwaterhistory #phoenicianhistory #shipwrecks #nautical

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 #underwaterhistory #nautical

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 #underwaterhistory #nautical

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 shipwrecks to give us a new understanding of how the great civilisations lived, traded and battled with each other across the waves…. #titanic #maritimehistory #history #marinearchaelogy #diving #scuba #bettanyhughes #honorfrost #bobballard #philippecousteau #underwaterhistory