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Drawing up an archaeological site plan
E-Learning with NAS
In 2020 , the Nautical Archaeology Society ( NAS ) was awarded a grant of nearly £ 46,000 from Historic England ’ s COVID-19 emergency fund . The grant was awarded to allow the NAS to revise and extend content on its eLearning platform .
The grant , which has been matched by the NAS , has allowed a complete revision of their three existing courses on Maritime , Underwater and Coastal & Foreshore Archaeology . By the end of 2021 , two new courses will be added to NAS ’ eLearning programme . ‘ Monitoring Archaeological Sites through Photography and Photogrammetry ’ and ‘ Cannon Research and Recording ’ will provide online training to people with specialist interest in those topics .
“ Lockdown restrictions around the world have meant that face-to-face courses have become impossible to offer , so being able to learn new skills from home has become the new normal ,” said Mark Beattie Edwards , NAS Chief Executive . Find out more , or sign up to one of the new courses at nauticalarchaeologysociety . org / elearning
Squid games on deep wreck
A sizeable – but not giant – squid was filmed on a deep wreck in the northern Red Sea by the research vessel OceanXplorer . While exploring the remains of the Pella , a ferry that sank off Aqaba , Jordan 10 years ago , an ROV filmed the mystery squid weaving in and out of the wreckage . At first , the crew thought they had filmed a giant squid , Architeuthis dux , but the shape was atypical for that species , and experts later decided the squid was a fully mature purpleback flying squid Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis which grows to five metres in length , including the long ‘ grabbing ’ tentacles .
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