Running the London Marathon seems a fitting way to support NAS' effort to Save The London wreck. We are delighted to have two places available for the 'virtual’ London Marathon event on Sunday 3 October 2021. Discover how to apply here....
The Big Anchor Project has received grant funding from the Honor Frost Foundation to help develop the project website and resources and to design a project App to help people record anchors in real time. The project starting in April will complete by the end of the year. Discover more here.....
In January 2021, Park rangers of the Southern Patagonia Coastal Marine Park in Argentina undertook NAS Training Courses given by Dr. Guillermo Gutierrez (IDEAus-Conicet, INAPL), with the participation of Dr. Dolores Elkin (Conicet-INAPL) director of PROAS-INAPL. Discover more here.....
We are excited to welcome Dr Athena Trakadas as the new editor of the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology. Athena will take over from Miranda Richardson on the 1st December and is looking forward to taking the journal into the next 50 years. Discover more about Athena here...
A grant from Historic England has helped the Nautical Archaeology Society to expand our online educational courses during lockdown. Two new 'specialist’ courses will be added covering monitoring archaeological sites through photography and photogrammetry and cannon research and recording. Find out more here...
Our Education Officer, Peta Knott, started off the year with a trip to Boston – the Boston where it’s best to not mention tea! Here, she shares her experience of a conference where everything is bigger!
Founding member of NAS and regular saviour of maritime heritage Valerie Fenwick and NAS member, Southampton University PhD candidate and historic boat enthusiast Jack Pink recall a remarkable collection of international boats that were once part of our UK cultural heritage but have now been dispersed overseas.
Three NAS members were given the opportunity to witness what really happens when geophysicists go looking for shipwrecks. Read about this trio's trip into the world of locating wrecks here...
Over the weekend of 28-29th of September 2019, a group of locals and volunteers took part in the NAS and MSDS Marine’s biannual survey to Sandwich, Kent, to continue the investigation into the wrecks on the foreshore. Find out what they discovered on their hunt for the "Juno" here...
Hidden just off Chesil Beach lie two wreck sites which, although they have been the focus of investigations for over 10 years, their identity remains a mystery. Find out more here..
