THE PAST BELOW
THE WAVES
Assignment 01
Reported by: Nourelhoda M. Elgazzar
ESL 69B
A- Paraphrasing:
There is a belief that more than three million destructive ships are down there at the benthos, due to
storms and accidents that happened during shipping activities for thousands of years.
This destruction is considered a valuable source of data for marine archaeologists, where they can cognize
about civilization, technology, and commercial patterns of these archaic cultures, but most of them are
deep down, out of reach.
Nearby the shore, the wreck operations are exposed to destruction because of plant growth, and tempest
and bounded to the 50 meters limit of scuba diving.
As the manned submarines were too expensive to be used in all discoveries except for famous locations
such as The Titanic, technology has presented a new type of instrument, like the mini-submarines and the
automatic underwater vehicle (AUV).
These new instruments are free-moving and don’t need a master-ship to be controlled, archaeologists’
team of Americans will discover a main, 4000 years old trading port in an area of the North Sea of Egypt,
using one of those AUV.
B- Summarizing:
At the bottom of the sea, there are more than three million wrecks, collected over the years due to
accidents that happened during sea-borne trading. For marine archaeologists, these wrecks’ locations are
considered a source of information about the culture of the ancients.
However, it is very difficult to discover these locations nearby the shore or in traditional ways, so manned
submarines are used to discover the famous locations only such as the titanic, for cost reasons. But the
technology has introduced us to more suitable cheap solutions, which are free-moving and easy to be
remotely controlled, like the Automatic underwater vehicle (AUV), an American team will be using one
AUV to explore an ancient main trading port in Egypt.