INA changed the editorial direction and appearance of The INA Quarterly, shifting to a more news-oriented and smaller size with a four-color format.
INA began and completed its first ever strategic planning exercise, with a 5-year plan, “The Way Forward,” as the result.
Dr. Donny L. Hamilton, President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP) Professor of Texas A&M University, continued to work on the final report on the Port Royal Project in Jamaica.
Drs. Deborah Carlson and Donny Hamilton, NAP Professors, completed the third excavation season on a 1st- century BC Roman marble carrier at Kızılburun, Turkey.
Dr. George Bass, Founder of INA and NAP Distinguished Professor Emeritus, completed the second volume of the Serçe Limanı series, Serçe Limanı: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, that is to be published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University.
Dr. George Bass, Founder of INA and NAP Distinguished Professor Emeritus, conducted a survey off the coast near Cesme, Turkey for Minoan and other shipwrecks.
Dr. Frederick van Doorninck, Jr., NAP Professor Emeritus, continued work on volume three of the Serçe Limanı report series that is to be published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Kevin Crisman, NAP Professor, concluded the fifth and final excavation season on an early 19th-century river boat in the Red River for the Oklahoma Historical Association.
Dr. Cemal Pulak, NAP Professor, along with several Nautical Archaeology Program students completed the excavation of four 11th-century AD Ottoman shipwrecks at a land excavation site at Yenikapi, in Istanbul, Turkey, and started the excavation on four more shipwrecks that continued into 2008.
Dr. Cemal Pulak , NAP Professor, along with four students, analyzed Uluburun artifacts for the final report.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, NAP Professor, and Donny Hamilton made a trip to Puerto Rico to arrange an survey project for the summer of 2008.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, NAP Professor, along with Nautical Archaeology Program students, conducted a survey for shipwreck in Lagos, Portugal, worked on a computer model of the sailing characteristics of the Pepper Wreck ship, and secured funding to setup a digital library of the INA and NAP archived files and photographs.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, NAP Professor put the final touches on the report on his survey for evidence of harbor facilities and shipwrecks in known Phoenician ports in Portugal.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, Nautical Archaeology Program professor, in conjunction with INA, the Canadian Institute in Greece, the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Archaeology, and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research conducted the 2007 deep water survey in the Mediterranean for Minoan shipwrecks.
Dr. Jerome Hall, Professor at the University of San Diego, conducted an excavation season on the 17th-century Pipe Wreck in the Dominican Republic.
Mr. Robin Piercy and Ms. Sheila Mathews, INA Bodrum staff, continue their research on the 17th-century Portuguese shipwreck at Mombasa, Kenya and worked on the final report on the project.
Mr. Asaf Oron, INA Bodrum Research Center Conservator, conducted background research in preparation for a coastal survey along the Dead Sea in Israel scheduled for October-November 2007.
The Conservation staff in Bodrum Turkey continued the conservation of the artifacts from the 1300 BC Uluburun, the 1st-century BC Kızılburun, and other shipwreck materials from other INA projects.
Much of the conservation work once conducted in the Bodrum Crusader Fortress, now a Maritime Museum, was moved to the INA Bodrum Research Center where the conservation facilities were completely renovated.
Large outdoor wood conservation vats were constructed to store and then conserve the wooden hull remains from a number of shipwrecks recently excavated at Yenikapi in Istanbul, Turkey.
Mr. Ben Ford, NAP graduate student, conducted a 2007 survey project in conjunction with the Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape Project.
Mr. Dante Bartoli, NAP graduate student, completed the report on the Punta Scifo shipwreck, a large Rome marble carrier, near Croton, Italy for his dissertation.
Mr. Kroum Batchvarov , NAP graduate student, continues to work on the final report on an early 18th-century shipwreck in the Black Sea in Bulgaria for his dissertation.
Mr. Justin Leidwanger, former NAP graduate student, now a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, completed another survey season at Cape Greco on the on the eastern coast of Cyprus.
Mr. Mark Polzer, NAP graduate student, completed the first season at the Bajo de la Campana Project in Spain. Preparations are now being made for a full-scale excavation with Spanish governmental authorities for a 2008 excavation.
Dr. Peter van Alfen of the American Numismatic Society and Dr. Frederick van Doorninck, Jr., NAP Professor Emeritus, continued the restudy of the amphora of the Yassiada shipwreck.
Mr. J. Barto Arnold, INA Archaeologist, completed two manuscript reports on the Denbigh Project, a Civil War blockade runner that ran aground in Galveston Bay, that will be submitted for book publication and continued work on a final report manuscript that will be submitted to Texas A&M University Press for publication.
Mr. Piotr Bojakowski and Ms. Katie Custer, two NAP doctoral students, investigated the feasibility of re-studying and conserving wood of the hull recovered from the Western Ledge Shipwreck, a 16th-century Iberian ship in Bermuda.
Mr. Carlos Cabrera, a NAP doctoral student, conducted an investigation of material in Seville that was recovered from a Byzantine ship found in a public square during a construction project.
INA hired Dr. James P. Delgado to serve as INA’s Executive Director in June.
During the summers of 2005 and 2006 a team from INA and Texas A&M University conducted surveys on the coast of Lagos, the city of Henry de Navigator, in search for traces of its important seafaring history. Several sites were located, although almost all dating to later periods, mostly because the 15th-century coastline is under the present city. (Filipe Castro, Tiago Fraga)
Dr. Donny L. Hamilton, President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP) Professor of Texas A&M University, continued to work on the final report on the Port Royal Project in Jamaica.
Drs. Donny Hamilton and Deborah Carlson, NAP Professors, completed the second excavation season on a 1st- century BC Roman marble carrier at Kızılburun, Turkey.
Dr. George Bass, Founder of INA and NAP Emeritus Professor, worked on the second volume of the Serçe Limanı series, Serçe Limanı: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, that is to be published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Frederick van Doorninck, Jr., NAP Emeritus Professor, continued work on volume three of the Serçe Limanı report series that is to be published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Kevin Crisman, NAP Professor, concluded the fifth and final excavation season on an early 19th-century river boat in the Red River for the Oklahoma Historical Association.
Dr. Cemal Pulak, NAP Professor, along with several Nautical Archaeology Program students continued the excavation of four 11th-century AD Ottoman shipwrecks at the land excavation site at Yenikapi, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Cemal Pulak , NAP Professor, along with four students, analyzed Uluburun artifacts for the final report.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, NAP Professor, continued negotiating with the Panamanian Government to get a permit to work on an early 16th-century Spanish Shipwreck in Panama.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, NAP Professor, along with Nautical Archaeology Program students, conducted a survey for shipwreck in Lagos, Portugal, worked on a computer model of the sailing characteristics of the Pepper Wreck ship, and secured funding to setup a digital library of the INA and NAP archived files and photographs.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, NAP Professor, worked on the final report on his survey for evidence of harbor facilities and shipwrecks in known Phoenician ports in Portugal.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, Nautical Archaeology Program professor, in conjunction with INA, the Canadian Institute in Greece, the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Archaeology, and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research conducted the 2006 Persian War Project searching for shipwreck along the Magnesian Coast of Greece where Herodotus describes the loss of the Persian Fleet in 480 BC.
Dr. James Delgado, INA Executive Director, along with Mr. Jack Kelley, INA Founder, worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to organize an exhibit displaying the Uluburun artifacts.
Dr. Jeff Royal of RPM Nautical Foundation conducted a second survey for shipwrecks for INA long along the southwestern coast of the Bozburun Peninsula and the approaches to the port of Bodrum, Turkey.
Dr. Jerome Hall, Professor at the University of San Diego, conducted an excavation season on the 17th-century Pipe Wreck in the Dominican Republic.
Mr. Glenn Greico, NAP Staff Ship Model Builder, constructed a museum model of the 19th-century Red River Wreck as it looked lying on the bottom of the Red River for the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Mr. J. Barto Arnold, INA Archaeologist, continued work on the final report on his excavation on Denbigh, a Civil War blockade runner that ran aground in Galveston Bay, Texas. During the past year he secured permanent exhibit space for the artifacts, neared completion with the conservation of the artifacts, and published Denbigh book no. 2.
Mr. Robin Piercy and Ms. Sheila Mathews, INA Bodrum staff, continue their research on the 17th-century Portuguese shipwreck at Mombasa, Kenya and worked on the final report on the project.
Mr. Asaf Oron, INA Bodrum Research Center Conservator, conducted background research in preparation for a coastal survey along the Dead Sea in Israel scheduled for October-November 2006.
The Conservation staff in Bodrum Turkey continued the conservation of the artifacts from the 1300 BC Uluburun, the 1st-century BC Kızılburun, and other shipwreck materials from other INA projects.
Mr. Ben Ford, NAP graduate student, conducted the background research in preparation for a 2007 survey project in conjunction with the Lake Ontario Maritime Cultural Landscape Project. From the research, the areas to be surveyed in 2007 were selected.
Mr. Dante Bartoli, NAP graduate student, completed a study of the Punta Scifo shipwreck, a large Rome marble carrier, near Croton, Italy for his dissertation.
Mr. Kroum Batchvarov , NAP graduate student, continued to work on the final report on an early 18th-century shipwreck in the Black Sea in Bulgaria.
Ms. Sarah M. Kampbell, NAP graduate student, spent four weeks documenting the hull of the Pantano Longarini shipwreck in Sicily.
Mr. Justin Leidwanger, former NAP graduate student, now a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with INA, RPM Nautical, and the THETIS Foundation on Cyprus, conducted a non-intrusive investigation of targets identified in earlier surveys and conducted a new survey at Cape Greco on the on the southeastern coast of Cyprus.
Mr. Randall Sasaki, NAP graduate student conducted a survey on a Spanish galleon, San Francisco that wrecked near Onjuku, Japan in 1609 with the support of the Spanish USA Foundation.
Mr. Mark Polzer, NAP graduate student, started the Bajo de la Campana Project in Spain. Preparations were made with governmental authorities preparing for a 2007 excavation.
Dr. Peter van Alfen of the American Numismatic Society and Dr. Frederick van Doorninck, Jr., NAP Emeritus Professor, undertook a restudy of the amphora of the Yassiada shipwreck.
Dr. Donny L. Hamilton, President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP) of Texas A&M University, continued to work on the final report on the Port Royal Project in Jamaica.
Drs. Donny Hamilton and Deborah Carlson, NAP Professors, started an excavation on a 1st- century BC Roman marble carrier at Kızılburun, Turkey.
Dr. George Bass, Co-Founder of INA and NAP Emeritus Professor , edited a book, with contributions from most of the Nautical Archaeology Program and a host of other contributors on the archaeological projects that INA has been associated with since its founding. The book, entitled Beneath the Seven Seas was published by Thames & Hudson.
Dr. George Bass, Co-Founder of INA and NAP Emeritus Professor, published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University, the first volume of the Serçe Limanı series, Serçe Limanı: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck, Volume I, The Ship and its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers. and continues to work on volume two of the series.
Dr. Frederick van Doorninck, Jr., NAP Emeritus Professor, continued work on volume three of the Serçe Limanı report series.
Dr. Kevin Crisman, NAP Professor, concluded the fourth excavation season on an early 19th-century river boat in the Red River for the Oklahoma Historical Association.
Dr. Cemal Pulak, NAP Professor, along with several Nautical Archaeology Program students completed the final season documenting the 16th -century Kadirga Galley housed in the Naval Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Cemal Pulak, NAP Professor, initiated excavations on a concentration of eight or more shipwrecks at the Yenikapi site in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Cemal Pulak , NAP Professor, along with four students, analyzed Uluburun artifacts for the final report.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, NAP Professor, continued negotiating with the Panamanian Government to get a permit to work on an early 16th-century Spanish Shipwreck at Playa Damas, Panama.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, NAP Professor, published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University, the book The Pepper Wreck: A Portuguese Indiaman at the Mouth of the Tagus River.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann, NAP Professor, worked on the final report on his a survey for evidence of harbor facilities and shipwrecks in know Phoenician ports in Portugal.
Dr. Samuel Mark, Texas A&M University Galveston Professor and former NAP student, published in the Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series at Texas A&M University a book based on his dissertation, entitled Homeric Seafaring.
Dr. Jeff Royal, of RPM Nautical Foundation conducted a survey for for shipwrecks on for INA along the southwestern coast of Turkey.
Dr. Jerome Hall, Professor at the University of San Diego, and Past President of INA, continued his archival study of documents pertaining to the 17th-century Monte Cristi Pipe Wreck in the Dominican Republic.
Mr. Glenn Greico, NAP Staff Ship Model Builder, constructed a working model of the 19th-century Red River Wreck for the Oklahoma Historical Association.
Mr. J. Barto Arnold, INA Archaeologist, worked on the final report on his excavation of Denbigh, a Civil War blockade runner that ran aground in Galveston Bay, Texas.
Mr. Robin Piercy and Sheila Mathews, INA Bodrum staff, continued their research on the 17th-century Portuguese shipwreck at Mombasa, Kenya and worked on the final report on the project.
Mr. Asaf Oron, INA Bodrum Research Center Conservator, conducted a coastal survey along the Dead Sea in Israel.
The Conservation staff in Bodrum Turkey continued the conservation of the artifacts from the 1300 BC Uluburun shipwreck and the material from other INA projects.
Mr. Justin Leidwanger, NAP graduate student, concluded his survey in Episkopi Bay on the western coast of Cyprus
Mr. Dante Bartoli, NAP graduate student, in association with RPM Nautical Foundation, conducted a survey for shipwrecks in the Locri Epizephiri area in Italy.
Mr. Dante Bartoli, NAP graduate student, in association with RPM Nautical Foundation, conducted a survey for shipwrecks in the Amalfi region of Italy.
Mr. Kroum Batchvarov , NAP graduate student, continues to work on the final report on an early 18th-century shipwreck in the Black Sea in Bulgaria.
Mr. Matthew Harpster, NAP graduate student, completed his study of the 9th-century hull of a shipwreck from the Bozburun Wreck in Turkey for his dissertation in the Nautical Archaeology Program.
Mr. Randall Sasaki, NAP graduate student started a database to document the ship timbers associated with the 13th-century Kublai Khan invasion fleet of Japan.
Mr. Pearce Paul Creasman, NAP graduate student, recorded the lines of the Dashur Boats in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
Mr. Mark Polzer, NAP graduate student, started a maritime survey project in Libya.
In July 2003 INA and Texas A&M University were invited to consider the complete excavation of the shipwreck at Playa Damas, located near Nombre de Dios, on the Atlantic coast of Panama. Found in the 1990s, this shipwreck was thought to be Columbus' vessel Vizcaína, a small 50 ton caravel lost near Nombre de Dios during his fourth voyage in 1503. In 2004 the site was surveyed and samples collected allowing for the dating of the shipwreck to the 1530s. Soon after, however, the site was salvaged by a for-profit company and its present condition is not known. Although no artifact seems to have been sold, there is no information about the salvage operations and it is not known whether the hull remains were spared. (submitted by Filipe Castro)
Dr. Donny L. Hamilton, President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), continued to work on the final report on the Port Royal Project and took a leave from teaching to facilitate it.
Drs. Donny Hamilton and Filipe Castro went to Playa de Damas in Panama to look at a early 16th-century Spanish shipwreck and to negotiate INA excavating it in the summer of 2004.
Dr. Jerome Lynn Hall, former President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, conducted another excavation season on the 17th -century shipwreck on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. He also continues the preparation of his report on the project.
Dr. George Bass, Co-Founder of INA, conducted the second and final season of excavation on Pabuç Burnu, a sixth-century BC shipwreck off the Aegean coast of Turkey.
Dr. Cemal Pulak, along with several NAP students continued another season, documenting the 16th -century Kadirga Galley housed in the Naval Museum in Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Cemal Pulak, along with four students, analyzed Uluburun artifacts for the final report.
Dr. Faith Henshell, along with INA staff, conducted a survey for shipwrecks on long the southwestern coast of Turkey.
Mr. Justin Leidwainger conducted a survey on the western coast of Cyprus
Ms. Katie Custer and Ms. Sara Hoskins conducted a survey for shipwrecks on the north south coast of the Dominican Republic around Santo Domingo Bay and the coastline to the east.
Dante Giulian Bartoli conducted a survey for shipwrecks on east center of the "toe" of Italy between Roccella to Badolatao Marina.
The Conservation staff in Bodrum Turkey continued the conservation of the artifacts from the 1300 BC Uluburun shipwreck and the material from other INA projects.
Dr. Kevin Crisman, Texas A&M University Nautical Archaeology Program (TAMU/NAP) Professor, conducted the first excavation season on an early 19th-century river boat in the Red River for the Oklahoma Historical Association.
Dr. Shelley Wachsmann worked on the final report on his a survey for evidence of harbor facilities and shipwrecks in know Phoenician ports in Portugal in 2003.
Dr. Filipe Viera de Castro, TAMU/NAP Professor, worked in the Lisbon Library for his book on Iberian ships.
Dr. Frederick van Doorninck, Jr. continued work on volume three of the Serçe Limanı report, an 11th-century shipwreck off of Turkey.
Mr. J. Barto Arnold, INA Archaeologist, is preparing the final report on his excvation conducted his fourth and final season of excavation on the Denbigh, a Civil War blockade runner that ran aground in Galveston Bay, Texas.
Mr. Douglas Haldane, Director of INA Egypt, finished the conservation of the Sadana Project and after many years, he and his wife, Jane Purnell, decided to move to the United States. With their move, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in Egypt was closed.
Ms. Athena Trakada, in association with RPM Nautical Foundation and Mr. George Robb, Director of INA, conducted the second season of a two-year an archaeological survey along the coast of Morocco.
Mr. Robin Piercy and Sheila Mathews continue their research on the 17th-century Portuguese shipwreck at Mombasa, Kenya and worked on the final report on the project.
Mr. Kroum Batchvarov, TAMU/NAP graduate student, completed the excavation on of a possible early 18th-century shipwreck in the Black Sea in Bulgaria.
Mr. Matthew Harpster, TAMU/NAP graduate student, continued his study of the 9th-century hull of a shipwreck from the Bozburun Wreck in Turkey for his dissertation in the Nautical Archaeology Program.
Bass publishes account of Tektaş excavation in March issue of National Geographic.
Bass begins excavation of the 6th-century B.C. wreck at Pabuç Burnu.
Jerome Hall resigns Presidency of INA for Professorship at University of San Diego.
Donny L. Hamilton is appointed President of INA.
Bass is awarded National Medal of Science by President George W. Bush at White House Ceremony.
Wachsmann launches geoarchaeological survey of Portuguese Phoenician sites.
Filipe Castro continues excavations in the Arade River, Portimao, Portugal.
Arnold continues excavation of Civil War blockade runner Denbigh.
Extensive updating of INA web site begun
INA-Egypt acquires portable recompression chamber.
Barto Arnold conducts reconnaissance survey of Salt River Bay, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, and continues excavation of Denbigh along with archival research.
Robert Ballard describes INA's role in his Black Sea Trade Project in the May National Geographic.
Bass concludes excavation at Tektaş and undertakes survey with the submersible Carolyn.
Hall continues excavation at Isla Cabra, Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic.
Arnold excavates Civil War blockade runner Denbigh for second season in Galveston, Texas.
Conservation of Uluburun artifacts continues in Turkey under Kathy Hall and Cemal Pulak.
Piercy and Matthews continue cataloging material from Santo Antonio de Tanna in Mombasa, Kenya.
Bachvarov continues investigations in Bulgaria.
ROV survey of large amphora pile off Maltese coast by Atauz
Erkut Arçak passes away at age 30.
Jerome L. Hall becomes INA President.
With help from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, INA acquires two-person Seamobile submersible, Carolyn, and in Turkey builds a 45-foot catamaran, Millawanda, to tend it.
Excavation of fifth-century B.C. shipwreck at Tektaş Burnu, Turkey, continues. First use of two-person submersible Carolyn
Cheryl Ward and Kathryn Willis represent INA in the Institute for Exploration Black Sea Trade Project.
Tufan Turanlı begins "Shipwrecks of Anatolia" project to document fully all the wrecks INA has discovered or examined over the years off the Turkish coast.
Full-scale excavation of Civil War blockade-runner Denbigh begins at Galveston.
Kroum Bachvarov and Hristina Angelova begin a joint INA/CUA (Center of Underwater Archaeology at Sozopol) excavation of an Ottoman shipwreck in Bulgaria.
Brett Phaneuf and George Robb conduct a remote-sensing survey of the sunken remains of D-Day at Normandy, France, with the U.S. Naval Historical Center's Underwater Archaeology Branch.
Ayse Atauz continues Maltese underwater survey.
Greene conducts reconnaissance in Butrint, Albania.
INA cooperates with Nergis Günsenin in her excavation of a Byzantine shipwreck off Marmara Island, Turkey.
Erkut Arçak continues his study of the Sultan's galley Kadirga in Istanbul.
Turkish Minister of Culture Talay opens Bronze Age Hall in Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology to display remains from Cape Gelidonya, Sheytan Deresi, and Uluburun.
Ribbons cut for new Library, with Mary and Lamar Tooze Readings Rooms; Nixon Griffis Conservation Laboratory; and Nason Computer Center at INA Headquarters in Bodrum
Conservation of Uluburun shipwrecked artifacts continues in Bodrum under Pulak and Kathy Hall.
Collaboration with CNANS on excavation of wreck in mouth of Tagus River, Portugal, continues.
Crisman represents INA in joint INA-DRC CNANS project to record an Iberian galleon of ca. 1600 sunk off Angra, Terceira Island, Azores.
Bass retires from Texas A&M University.