It is true there were possibly 2 or 3 other groups at different times in the past 10 years and more recently who were/are trying to get permits to excavate the Durupinar ark site and even Ron Wyatt last attempted to excavate the boat formation in the 1990s. Our group’s current efforts at the site started right after the October 2014 resistivity survey expedition, Andrew Jones talked to his long-time local friend and guide, Zafer Onay, about doing more work on the site. Ultimately this lead to efforts to try to get permits to excavate the site in the summer of 2015 but due to instability in the region that summer no excavation was started and in 2016 the coup attempt stopped that year’s efforts to excavate the site. The country of Turkey was under a state of emergency until the summer of 2018. In the fall of 2018 and in the summer of 2019 we met Turkish scientists willing to work with us. In 2020 everything came to a stop due to the pandemic. Each group attempting to do work in this region has its own guides, contacts, interests and goals. While it would be nice if all the resources were pooled together to do a joint effort so far for different reasons this has not been possible. Maybe in the future things will change. For now, we feel our work directly under the Turkish scientists is the best bet to finally making an excavation happen.