Winter2016AlertDiver

t was Thursday morning, Sept. 10, 2015, and I was eagerly waiting to hear

from George Koutsouflakis, Ph.D., director of a new wreck survey. He was

leading the dive team from the Greek Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities on

a long-planned underwater wreck survey mission to the Fourni Islands.

“This new mission had risks greater than any other mission I had been

involved in,” Koutsouflakis said. “We would be operating in a new area —

completely unknown — with a new team.”

TWENTY-TWO

ANCIENT SHIPWRECKS

FOUND IN GREECE

By John Stella | Photos by Vasilis Mentogianis

A scatter of amphorae on

a rocky reef indicates the

presence of a late Roman

shipwreck (from the 4th-7th

centuries) in the area.