Seytan Deresi, Turkey
Date - c 1600 BC?
Depth - 27 33 m (89 - 109 ft)
Found by - Cumhur Ilik, 1965
Excavation - 1975
Cargo - storage jars, krater, pitchers
Hull - unknown
"If it hadn't been so cold, we never would have seen them. The two jars sparked little interest. But on a cold November evening in 1973, bundled in jackets on the deck of the Turkish trawler Karde?ler, we looked for any excuse to stop for the evening and perhaps warm ourselves over glasses of rak?.
We'd been living on fishing boats for three months, eating on deck from communal pots and sleeping in fish holds. We were on our way to examine a reported Roman wreck in Turkey's Gökova Bay when we realized we were passing ?eytan Deresi." - George Bass
Source
Bass, George F., "An Enigma at Devil Creek: ?eytan Deresi, Turkey," in "Beneath the Seven Seas," edited by George F. Bass, pp. 31-33. New York and London, 2005.
The excavation was financed largely by the National Geographic Society, with additional funds given by the SCM Corporation, Alcoa Foundation, Harrison Eiteljorg, and Triopian Foundation for Archaeological Research.
Loss of the cargo circa 1600 B.C. based on parallels to ceramics from other sites such as Beyçesultan, Troy, and Minoan sites in Crete