Shipwrecks of the Black Sea

http://www.utexas.edu

Find out why ancient shipwrecks remain preserved and intact in the basement of the Black Sea unlike any other place in the world. Travel deep into the sea's dead zone using remote operated vehicles. Discover why Bob Ballard, the famous oceanographer, sought a partnership with the Institute of Classical Archeology (ICA) at The University of Texas at Austin, subsequently hiring graduate research assistant Dan Davis to his crew.

Underwater footage courtesy of the Institute for Exploration.

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Education

Tags:

• shipwreck
• excavation
• archaeology
• Black
• Sea
• Bob
• Ballard
• Byzantine
• Soviet
• Cold
• War
• ICA
• ROV
• Russia
• Thomas
• Garza
• Ukraine
• UT
• Texas
• Dan
• Davis
• Longhorns
• Austin

[TheKarmaComedian]

0:17 LOL "North of Turkey"  as opposed to those other parts of the Black Sea that aren't north of Turkey.

[playedrunner]

@matus1976 haha i thought that too but what he means is that there is no oxygen dissolved in gas form in the water (H2O) therefore organisms can't survive there

[paulineedington]

very entertaining =)) thanks for posting keep it up .. god speed



[veloh]

the hell with the subtitles I can't see the vid, I stopped at 0:30

[lesterclaypool1]

@matus1976 what hes trying to say is the redox is very low ,, and that help slow down the oxidization of the ship

[cmeza1985]

@wheelinthesky300 i've been looking for updates on this also

[iradarf58ru]

Сколько таит в себе море....

[alxcsb]

@wheelinthesky300 The ship could be around 500 years old. The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453.

[wheelinthesky300]

@Rocksolidvb The Byzantine ship is 1500 years old, as in 500 A.D.

500 years agao, the Byzantine Empire was already gone.

[wheelinthesky300]

I still haven't seen a photo of the excavated Byzantine ship.