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Albania

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June 2019 Field Season Highlights

July 3, 2019 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

Highlights from the start of the 2019 field season! Follow us on board R/V Hercules as we go from Malta to Albania to Sicily. 

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R/V Hercules Tour and Reception in Durres, Albania

June 19, 2019 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

RPM Nautical Foundation was proud to co-host a dockside reception in Durres, Albania on June 14th 2019 with Mr. Auron Tare, Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Body of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage. The guests, which included the ambassadors to Albania of Spain, Croatia, Italy, Japan, and Russia, …

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Albania Coastal Survey in The Sunday Times, London

June 12, 2019 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

Race to Save Med’s Last Great Treasure Unexplored for decades, Albania’s waters are filled with artefacts. Efforts are under way to chart them before looters descend By Louise Callaghan, published in The Sunday Times, London, 1 July 2018 DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE TO READ MORE

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Albania Project Update

February 21, 2019 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

This project update in the INA Quarterly, published by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, describes RPM Nautical Foundation’s first large-scale coastal survey of Albania in 2007. Focuses include: areas surveyed, wrecksites discovered, and one particular site and its archaeological finds, as well as the potential for future field seasons in the Albania coast. DOWNLOAD THE ARTICLE TO …

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Archaeologists urge Albania to protect underwater heritage

July 10, 2018 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

LLAZAR SEMINI, ASSOCIATED PRESS July 4, 2018  TIRANA, Albania — Hundreds of Roman and Greek artifacts and ancient shipwrecks sitting under Albania’s barely explored coastline are in danger of falling prey to looters or treasure hunters if not properly protected, researchers and archaeologists warn. James Goold, chairman of the Florida-based RPM Nautical Foundation, said the objects …

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A Roman Type IVB Wooden Anchor Found in the Corfu Channel, Albania

August 1, 2012 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

Lead components of a wooden anchor were discovered during the 2011 field season of the Albanian Coastal Survey, part of the Illyrian Coastal Exploration Program, a co-operative effort between RPM Nautical Foundation, the Albanian Institute of Archaeology, and the Albanian Ministries of Culture and Defense. Since 2007 an intensive survey for submerged cultural material has completed… …

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The Adriatic’s Uncharted Past

March 1, 2011 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

Once closed to exploration, the waters off the Albanian coast begin to give up their secrets The R/V Hercules is anchored in the Adriatic Sea near Saranda, Albania, and the crew of the 110-foot-long research vessel is at attention. “Back deck, stand clear of the wind!” RPM Nautical Foundation (RPMNF) founder George Robb bellows into …

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HMS Volage Discovery

January 1, 2010 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

In Albania With the RPM Nautical Foundation This article details RPMNF’s survey work along the Albanian coast in conjunction with the Albanian Institute of Archaeology, the Albanian Ministry of Defense, and INA. The goal of the surveys is search for shipwrecks and other submerged sites–history that would be otherwise lost. Described here is the incident …

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Revisiting an Early Naval Incident of the Cold War

January 1, 2010 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

Archaeological Identification of the Bow of HMS Volage Sunk During the Corfu Channel Incident of October 22, 1946 Introduction Following the Second World War, Britain asserted that the Corfu Channel, a narrow seaway separating the island of Corfu from the Albanian coast, was an international strait. Albania, at that time a Communist State under the …

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Corinthian Shipwrecks

July 1, 2009 //  by RPM Nautical Foundation

This article in the July 2009 issue of Archaeology magazine summarized the important research and diving expeditions being conducted by RPM Nautical Foundation in the waters along the Albania’s coastline. Most of the finds consist of Corinthian goods from Greek transport ships which sank in route to their destinations on the Adriatic coast. Download the …

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