Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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Page 19
... clear water before his eyes by moving his hand in a figure of eight . He draws in the clear water from above his head and simul- taneously controls the flow of the sand below with the same movement . This sort of thing has to be taught ...
... clear water before his eyes by moving his hand in a figure of eight . He draws in the clear water from above his head and simul- taneously controls the flow of the sand below with the same movement . This sort of thing has to be taught ...
Page 93
... clear water ; not only did it come from depth , but what particles of sand there were , filtered downwards and back over the sloping rocks of the seaward gaps . Thus , when the gates were opened , currents of siltless water could be ...
... clear water ; not only did it come from depth , but what particles of sand there were , filtered downwards and back over the sloping rocks of the seaward gaps . Thus , when the gates were opened , currents of siltless water could be ...
Page 97
... clear . Lauffray notes Byblos1 as an example of ' the round port so common in antiquity and comparable to Latakia and Gebele ' . On the other hand , it could be a natural , geological formation resulting from the action of a torrent ...
... clear . Lauffray notes Byblos1 as an example of ' the round port so common in antiquity and comparable to Latakia and Gebele ' . On the other hand , it could be a natural , geological formation resulting from the action of a torrent ...
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Henri Broussard | 6 |
Boat hanging from trees Crete | 10 |
eroded figures from same wreck | 19 |
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40 metres Afyon amphorae anchorage ancient wrecks Anthéor Anticythera aqualung archaeological archaeologists Barnier Beirut boat Bodrum bottle bottom Bronze Age buried Byblos Byzantine Cannes cargo castle centimetres closed ports coast concretions Congloué Cousteau Crete depth diving draughtsman drawings Dumas excavation fish Frédéric Dumas free-divers Greek Halicarnassos harbour harbour-works hole hull island Izmir Karabağla keel Kemal Knossos land later layer lead stocks Lebanon look Mahdia Mallia marine masonry Mediterranean metal method metres Minoan Mochlos mole Motya Museum Mustafa Nemi Nemi ships never objects Phoenician photographs planks Plate Poidebard quays recording reef remains ribs rock rock-cut Roman rope round salvage sand sea-bed seaward seen shallow water sherds ship side Sidon silt slope sponge sponge divers stone anchors structure submarine submerged surface survey swim Tabarja tanks thing tiles tion tombs took town trench tumulus Turkish Tyre underwater walls wood wooden wreck-formations