NAS 1 completed…

30. July 2009 by admin.

Well, today our group finished our NAS 1 class, for the less informed NAS is the Nautical Archeological Society class on the proper techniques of documenting shipwrecks, either on the foreshore, and underwater.  We were taught the proper way to set up baselines, and how measure using offsets, and trilaterations.

The shipwreck we surveyed, and documented was the Joesph Fay just North of Rogers City, Michigan at the 40 mile Point Lighthouse.  The section was determined to a 130 foot starboard hull, that has been beached.  After we setup our baseline we broke up into teams, each team had a fifty foot section to survey.

Surveying the width on both sides of the baseline was easy, the daunting task was measuring every spike, and there had to been 500 just in our fifty foot section.  Thank you Wayne, and Tane (our instructors) for only making us do a detailed 10 foot section, which only had maybe 100 spikes, which we never finished, I would have been there until Thanksgiving trying to finish.

I can only imagine how this works underwater.  Wayne did show us the rest of the wreck he, and a team of seven completed in two days, underwater, and it was amazing, it resembled a piece of art, just awesome.

So with practice, and I mean a lot of practice maybe one my documenting will resemble those of Wayne, and Tane.

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