Deep sea archaeology and other cool shite

Lazy post is lazy

Really cool.

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This area of history is quite interesting to me. The struggles of the Byzantines, Venetians, and Hapsburgs (among others) against the Turks are really overlooked in American education. (In particular, I believe that the Siege of Vienna in 1683 is a must for any historian.)

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the Turks loved little wieners so much they went to war

The medieval ship lay more than a half-mile down at the bottom of the Black Sea, its masts, timbers and planking undisturbed in the darkness for seven or eight centuries. Lack of oxygen in the icy depths had ruled out the usual riot of creatures that feast on sunken wood.

This fall, a team of explorers lowered a robot on a long tether, lit up the wreck with bright lights and took thousands of high-resolution photos. A computer then merged the images into a detailed portrait.

Archaeologists date the discovery to the 13th or 14th century, opening a new window on forerunners of the 15th- and 16th-century sailing vessels that discovered the New World, including those of Columbus. This medieval ship probably served the Venetian empire, which had Black Sea outposts.

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Deep sea archaeology and other cool shite

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This isn't a deep sea story, it's a shallow sea, the shelf...

So when the world is in an Ice Age, global sea level drops. That sea water is locked up in ice on land.

On a surface that has little relief change, like 1 foot down per mile, a 6 foot drop in sea level can expose a lot of the the land.

So, we actually see lots of signs of villages on shorelines because of this.

Your mom's vagina is a deep sea story

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This isn't a deep sea story, it's a shallow sea, the shelf...

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yep. if we go on a job thats in less than 3000ft of water, thats pretty shallow. im not impressed until you get passed 7,000 or so

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yep. if we go on a job thats in less than 3000ft of water, thats pretty shallow. im not impressed until you get passed 7,000 or so

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I'd say that deep is anything deeper than the shelf.

So that would mean 150 m deep. You could also say deep is where you don't get sunlight penetration "aphotic zone", which starts at 200 m.