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Timbers in the water tank. Image: Irini Malliaros/Silentworld for Sydney Metro, used with permission.

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THE END OF THE ENDEAVOUR?

IN SEARCH OF CAPTAIN COOK'S SHIP: NEWPORT, RI

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THE ORIGINAL SOUTH AUSTRALIAN

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Not-for-profit organisation supporting and promoting #maritimearchaeology in Australasia and Melanesia. Currently working on the #BarangarooBoat

#FindsFriday A spot of teamwork during the Decembe

#FindsFriday A spot of teamwork during the December 2018 Boot Reef expedition 🤝.

📸: @seajewlz/Silentworld Foundation. This project was undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum.

#Flippers #Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Diving #Wreck #Coral #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Artefacts #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography #FlashbackFriday

#FindsFriday Pro tip: Always take the camera with

#FindsFriday Pro tip: Always take the camera with you on a dive 📷🧜‍♂️👍.

Another of the large #anchors documented during the 2017 expedition to #KennReefs. This project was undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum. The diver is taking pictures for the site report as well as documenting the condition and location of the artefact ⚓️✏️🔎.

📸: @seajewlz/Silentworld Foundation.

#Achor #Shipwrecks #Archaeology #ArchaeologyFieldwork #Diving #Wreck #Coral #Artefacts #Sitework #ArchaeologyLovers #HistoryNerd #InstaHeritage #Artefacts #Reef #DivingLife #MaritimeHistory #MaritimePhotography #MaritimeArchaeology #OzArch #InstaArchaeology #Sea #Ocean #ArchaeologyLife #UnderwaterPhotography #FlashbackFriday

🐙🤜🤛😃 Happy #worldoctopusday. Here's a

🐙🤜🤛😃 Happy #worldoctopusday. Here's a #repost from our maritime archaeologist, @rae.malliaros:

I watched the documentary #MyOctopusTeacher recently. Although it was a cooler sort of day in Sydney my eyes kept sweating excessively 😭 at intervals throughout the film for some odd reason. What an incredible bit of film! And an extraordinary tale that speaks to the soul.

I now feel even more honoured to have been granted this wonderfully gentle (yet also firm) handshake from a welcoming #octopus, so many years ago now.

I cannot begin to imagine the depth of emotion described by the narrator/protagonist felt through this most surreal experience but I can very much identify with this concept of becoming aware of the natural world. Something we must all strive for - we have isolated ourselves and we have forgotten, generally as a species, what it means to be part of something bigger than ourselves. I feel that this, is the very core of many problems that we face today. If we were more aware, we would be less inclined to cause damage and more proactive in helping to correct it.

P.S. When the octopus went back to its rock and w from our resident maritime archaeologist, I remember we looked back and saw it had left its rock and moved to the little dent I had made in the sand where I was kneeling 🥺 I had probably dug up some food that it was going after but I like to think that maybe it was looking for me 💚.

#getbacktonature #octopus #handshake #humbled #gotthemessage #waterislife #loveearth

#FindsFriday It takes a team to conduct an epic ex

#FindsFriday It takes a team to conduct an epic expedition 🤿🤿🤿.

We spotted several large #anchors during the 2017 expedition to Kenn Reefs. This project was undertaken in partnership with @sea.museum.

📸: @seajewlz /Silentworld Foundation.

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#BarangarooBoat Update: Did you know archaeologica

#BarangarooBoat Update: Did you know archaeological timbers need ‘health’ check-ups? 👨‍⚕️⛵️🔬

As part of the #conservation process, a condition assessment of the timbers (and any sediments adhering closely to them) must be undertaken prior to any desalination and chemical treatment. This is an important step as it allows conservators to record information about the condition of the item/s, and determine the most appropriate treatment applicable.

Part of the assessment on the boat timbers includes analysis by X-ray fluorescence (#XRF) to confirm, among other elements, iron and sulphur contamination.

A big thank you to Prof Damian Gore from @macquarieuni for joining us on site with his portable XRF equipment and working with Ian Panter (@yatnews_ ) to collect data from some of the timbers and samples of adhering sediment, and undertaking further elemental and mineralogical analysis (#XRD) on sediment.

📸 © Silentworld Foundation for #SydneyMetro.

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#FindsFriday ⚓️An anchor from #JennyLind, whic

#FindsFriday ⚓️An anchor from #JennyLind, which wrecked on #KennReefs in the early hours of 21 Septemeber 1850.

On 27 August 1850, Jenny Lind cleared Melbourne. In addition to its cargo, the vessel carried 19 officers and crew and nine passengers, including three young children. The weather was reportedly variable for the first part of the voyage, but by 19 and 20 September the sun was so obscured by cloud that celestial observations could not be taken to fix the vessel’s position.

Shortly after 4 am on 21 September, lookouts aboard Jenny Lind spotted ‘something black’ in the water ahead and immediately took evasive action, but were unable to prevent the barque striking the reef and going over on its beam ends.

Miraculously, no lives were lost. All crew and passengers were subsequently transported to a ‘coral bank, partly covered with sand … about half a mile away’ from the wreck site, where they eked out an existence for the next 37 days.

Critical to their survival was a water distillation system made from copper cookware and lead piping salvaged from Jenny Lind. Designed and built by passenger Phillip Beal (a physician and former ship’s surgeon), it could reportedly convert 25 gallons (114 litres) of seawater into drinkable freshwater per day. The crew, meanwhile, salvaged timber, rigging and sails from the wreck and constructed a ‘schooner-rigged boat’ capable of carrying 22 people.

On 29 October 1850, this vessel and Jenny Lind’s only surviving ship’s boat (a small cutter) set off from Kenn Reefs for Brisbane, where they safely arrived after a voyage of about three weeks.

📸 @rae.malliaros/Silentworld Foundation, 2017. This expedition was undertaken with @sea.museum. Find out more in 'The Wreck of the Jenny Lind' by Dr James Hunter and Renee Malliaros, published in Signals 119 June-August 2017, p.8-13.

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It is almost time for some spring cleaning! 💐🧹 For a bit of inspiration and motivation, here is a look at a complete clean of one of the longer planks from the Barangaroo Boat.

All in a day’s work for our conservator and research assistant, Heather Berry. Under the supervision of Ian Panter from York Archaeological Trust, almost all timber elements passed through Heather’s hands at the cleaning tables! She now recognises timbers not by their assigned number, but by the features of their surfaces.

🎥 Filmed and edited by Heather Berry/Silentworld Foundation; © Sydney Metro

#BarangarooBoat #SydneyMetro #brooboat #conservation #conservatorlife #shipwreck #squeakyclean #maritimearchaeology #archaeology

#BarangarooBoat update: It's Time to get our (3D)

#BarangarooBoat update: It's Time to get our (3D) modelling on 💃🕺📸.

Once the raw scans of the shipwreck timbers have been captured by the structured light scanner, they must be processed in the appropriate software (Artec Studio) to produce the final, clean 3D model of each timber.

The process includes lining up scans of different sides of the object, removing the surrounding reference geometry, getting rid of any ‘noise’ and applying the texture.

This phase comes with its own challenges and we are fortunate to be learning the ropes from Thomas Van Damme who, along with his colleagues, literally wrote the book on this highly rapid, accurate and user friendly modelling technique for recording shipwreck timbers. Learn more about their work here: https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186/s40494-020-00417-9.

📸: © @rae.malliaros /Silentworld Foundation for #SydneyMetro 2019

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What is your planking technique? Scanning the fra

What is your planking technique?

Scanning the frame elements of the Barangaroo Boat had a few little challenges that Thomas was able to address quickly and easily. The slightly larger problem to solve came with scanning the planks. Thomas had to devise a way by which to capture the most information along with reference geometry that would help the software reconstruct what the camera was capturing.

Suspending the planks with several soft plastic tubes over a ‘busy landscape’ proved the most effective!

📸 Irini Malliaros/Silentworld Foundation; Sydney Metro

#barangarooboat #brooboat #3Dscanning #Ubi3D #Artec3D #artec3dscanner

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