Oceans Odyssey - 9781842174159

Oceans OdysseyDeep-Sea Shipwrecks in the English Channel, the Straits of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean\nAuthor(s): Sean Kingsley, Greg Stemm\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxbow Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxbow Books\nISBN-13: 9781842174159, 978-1842174159\nSynopsis\nIn ten papers Odyssey Marine Exploration presents the technology, methodology and archaeological results from four deep-sea shipwrecks and one major survey conducted between 2003 and 2008. The sites lie beyond territorial waters in depths of up to 820 metres off southeastern America and in the Straits of Gibraltar and the English Channel. Exclusively recorded using robotic technology in the form of a Remotely-Operated Vehicle, the wrecks range from the major Royal Navy warships HMS\nSussex [tel] and the unique, 100-gun, first-rate HMS Victory [tel]to the steamship SS Republic [tel] and a mid-19th century merchant vessel with a cargo of British porcelain. Their study reveals that the future of deep-sea.