to help INA protect the world's greatest museum... under water?
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What does it take
...to excavate a 7th-century B.C. Phoenician wreck?
In 2009 it took approximately $110,000 to bring in students and volunteers to do the work in the field (no one receives a salary, but we get them to the site, feed and house them), boat hire and fuel costs, equipment, and insurance. Half of the budget came from sponsorships and grants, and the other half came from private donations and support from INA directors, members and other friends.
...to work on a nautical archaeological time capsule?
For $3,000, we can offer a student the opportunity to travel to the Vasa Museum in Stockholm and spend the entire summer studying and documenting the hull and collections of the Swedish warship Vasa - a perfectly preserved time capsule of sailing technology and craftsmanship from 1628.
...to update www.inadiscover.com
Adding the results of a project's field season to the growing body of work on new INA website making it accessible to a worldwide audience online costs $500 - $1500 to develop, organize and enter date, create photo & video galleries and add internal and external content links.
... to publish the results of discovery?
$15,000 will allow us to complete the final editing, graphic preparation (drawings, plans, maps, photos) and computer work to publish the final report - a 400 + page book - on the landmark excavation of the Santo Antonio da Tanna, a 42-gun Portuguese frigate that sank off Mombasa, Kenya in 1697. INA excavated the wreck between 1976 and 1980, and recovered more than 15,000 artifacts for analysis, conservation and museum display. It has taken three decades to complete this work, and now this last step ensures the results of that excavation and analysis are published to a high standard by INA's partners at Texas A&M University Press.