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Pilot Konstantinos "Kostas" Katsaros shakes hands with co-PI Rich
Camilli upon completion of the first Thetis dive during Project PHAEDRA
2006.
(Image courtesy of Project PHAEDRA 2006, WHOI, HCMR, Thira Foundation, NOAA.)
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Project PHAEDRA 2006
Autonomous Rapid High Resolution Mapping of Ancient Deep Water Shipwrecks and Geologic Features
Collaborators:
The Hellenic Center for Marine Research
From June 25 to July 4, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and
Hellenic Center for Marine Research – led team of engineers,
geologists, geochemists, archaeologists, and historians worked together on
the Greek research vessel Aegaeo to explore deep sites within
Greek national waters. Named for a Greek mythological character,
Project PHAEDRA 2006 was the second season of a multi-year
Greek-American ocean research partnership. This year the PHAEDRA team used a combination of deep submergence technologies with integrated
technological systems to collect data to answer questions
fundamental to both social science and earth science.
PHAEDRA’s geological / oceanographic objectives were to investigate the
characteristics and geochemistry of active hydrothermal venting sites
in the volcanic field of Milos island and in the
caldera of Santorini. Together with the volcanic fields of Nisyros,
Aegina, the Methana peninsula, and other minor volcanic centers,
Columbo, Santorini and Milos are part of the concave Hellenic Volcanic
Arc in the southern Aegean Sea. This arc parallels the active front of
the Hellenic Orogenic Arc in the Eastern Mediterranean.
NOAA Explore: Project PHAEDRA
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