Excavation & Diving











The Diving Support Vessel

The archaeological diving team is living and working from the DSV Terschelling which is maintained over the site on a four-point mooring for the duration of the excavation. Terschelling is an ex Dutch Navy buoy laying and survey vessel with a length of 40.5 metres and draught of 2.676 metres. It is currently equipped in DSV mode with a dive cage, a 54" decompression chamber and the facility to have two divers operating airlifts or dredges on surface supply simultaneously. It is equipped with Seacat and Hyball ROV's, a cesium magnetometer and side scan sonar.

There is dedicated space for finds recording and passive holding, a computer room and separate dive control. The networked computer system means that all information including diving, archaeological survey, artefact positioning and navigational data is immediately available to all computers on the network. Site plans in autocad can be updated daily.



Terschelling Planning Remote Operations

DSV Terschelling

Updating site plan

Dive operations


Computer room Dressing diver Cargo Crate

Computer room

Dressing diver

Finds Crate


Diver Ready ROV Deployed Control Point

Diver ready

ROV deployment

Control Point 1


Diver at stern of wreck Sieving Finds Lab

Diver on sternpost

Sieving the spoil

Recording a barrel


Finds Recording Finds Lab Sunrise

Measuring a stave

The finds bay

Sunrise




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