Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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Page 96
... rock falls abruptly to a sandy bottom at a depth of about 6 metres . Waves break furiously over the rocks and filter back , leaving clear , sandless pools . Another feature of this shelf would puzzle a visitor : the rocks are covered ...
... rock falls abruptly to a sandy bottom at a depth of about 6 metres . Waves break furiously over the rocks and filter back , leaving clear , sandless pools . Another feature of this shelf would puzzle a visitor : the rocks are covered ...
Page 97
... rock , and then finds an out- let - channel at some weak point to seaward . Depending on the depth of this channel , the steepness of its walls and its orientation in relation to the local sources of silt , it is possible for this type ...
... rock , and then finds an out- let - channel at some weak point to seaward . Depending on the depth of this channel , the steepness of its walls and its orientation in relation to the local sources of silt , it is possible for this type ...
Page 105
... rock . Dumas , who was there , took a look at the rock outcroppings , and with a seaman's eye for entrance channels struck out in that direction . He returned with the verdict that no ship could have got through between the rocks . On ...
... rock . Dumas , who was there , took a look at the rock outcroppings , and with a seaman's eye for entrance channels struck out in that direction . He returned with the verdict that no ship could have got through between the rocks . On ...
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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