oldseacock
worstleak
rottensole
snowonthebow
snowcovereddeck
Check out the solid ice in the hold up to the top of the rudder-post. Somewhere down there’s a bilge pump.
Blizzard
About a foot of snow fell on Tall Timbers this weekend.
Gypsy, Aug. 2009
2010 plans
2010 will be a busy year, with a lot of reconnaissance for the Maryland Historical Trust, and ground-truthing the sites we found in 2007 and 2009 in the Delaware for the Delaware Division of Historical & Cultural Affairs and the Archaeological Society of Delaware, and mapping the Quantico Creek site for the Marine Corps base, and perhaps doing some reconnaissance for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources in several rivers, and perhaps helping MHT survey some battlefield sites — plus giving Roper her biennial bottom paint, adding a small derrick to lift ballast stones at the St. Augustine site, and taking her to Florida for field work and a four-week field school at the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum. Our grant proposal to MHT will cover two large areas of the Potomac, involving 70 or more days of scanning and as much diving as it takes to map whatever we find. The areas range from Cobb Island to the Rt 301 bridge, and from Smith Creek to Point Lookout.
The February issue of Chesapeake Bay magazine will include a feature article on IMH’s work in the Bay. Hopefully. the article will help recruit more members.
Adventure Scuba plans to offer more sessions of their exellent low-viz training course. IMH may offer another four-day field school in low-viz site mapping if people want it.
The initial plan for the year is as follows:
date meet boat area / job notes
all January Tall Timbers MD SHIP recon & map, finish SHIP 09 work
6– 9 Jan Amelia Island FL Society for Historical Archaeology annual conference
6– 7 Feb Tall Timbers SHIP get details on selected sites
13–14 Feb ” fun Valentine’s Day dives
20–21 Feb ” SHIP get details on selected sites
27–28 Feb ” Roper haul boat, scrub bottom
6–7 March ” ” fix, sand and paint boat
13 Mar Crownsille MD Maryland Archaeology Workshop
20 Mar Ocean City MD Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference
20 Mar–4 Apr Tall Timbers Roper fix, sand and paint boat
10–11 Apr ” ” launch, sea trials
17–18 Apr ” U-1105 put mooring buoy on site
25 Apr-9 May * ” SHIP get details on selected sites
15 – 16 May ” Roper prepare for Florida trip
Sat. 22 May ” LAMP underway for Florida
26 or 27 May ” arrive St. Augustine
all June Lewes DE SHIP ground-truth Delaware sites
Fri. 2 July LAMP fly or train to St. Augustine
Sun. 4 July St. Augustine ” underway for Maryland
8 or 9 July ” arrive at Tall Timbers
17 July–1 Aug * various SHIP map Potomac and Quantico sites
7 Aug – 30 Nov * ” recon for MHT
20 – 21 Nov Tall Timbers U-1105 pull buoy for the winter
Whenever: Help MHT map battlefield sites in the Chesapeake.
Finish Gunston Hall reconnaissance!!
Scan and map Virginia rivers? *
Enter, plot, and reconcile site data for DE, MD, and VA.
* scan during the week, dive on weekends
Schedule updates will be emailed to anyone who wants them.
PS — Please don’t forget your dues! All this work takes money.
HMAP Call for Papers
HMAP invites papers for the conference, Oceans Past III: Stories from the sea – history of marine animal populations and their exploitation. The conference will take place at Synge Lecture Hall, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 18‐20 November 2010.
The first decade of international, multi‐disciplinary “History of Marine Animal Populations” (HMAP) research program culminates in 2010. At this juncture, it is appropriate to reflect on the project’s major achievements, to look ahead and consider the future of marine environmental history and historical ecology, and to consider how the knowledge assembled to date can be applied to marine resource management and conservation. Go to http://hmapcoml.org/oceanspast/ for additional information.