Computers will be available at the FSU Marine Labs for students to practice this kind of data recording, analysis, and presentation. All artifacts and sediment samples will be brought back to the labs of the Program in Underwater Archaeology for conservation, analysis, and report writing. In addition to mylar mapping with pencils under the water, students will become familiar with video and photographic record keeping methodology. We will produce daily updates on our World Wide Web site for the interested public and news media. Average water depths will be fifteen to twenty feet with a maximum of thirty feet.
Visibility ranges from three to fifty feet.
The water color and visibility is a function of the nearby rivers whose waters are often darkened by tannic acid and other organic content. Water temperatures run in the low to mid-eighties. Underwater the sand bottom is punctuated by low-relief outcrops of limestone, which support biological communities including sponges, stone crabs, sea urchins and juvenile fish of many species. All medical records must go through Dr. William Kepper, Tallahassee. These forms will be supplied upon acceptance to the field research opportunity.