Discovery
Michael Katzev of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was directing a team to survey the coast of Cyprus for shipwrecks in 1967 when a sponge diver took the team to the site. Using a metal detector, protonmagnetometer and probes, the group spent a month surveying the site to find the ship and the cargo over an area measuring 60 × 30 feet (9.1 m). During the summers of 1968 and 1969 the expedition consisting of 50 underwater archaeologists, students and technicians employed stereo-photography and other developed techniques to record the position of each object before it was raised. Then the ship's wooden hull which was well preserved in the sand mud was "mapped", labeled and lifted in pieces to the surface.
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