Peter Throckmorton

Peter Throckmorton DMH American journalist and underwater archaeologist is one of several pioneer underwater archaeologists frequently described as the Father of Underwater Archaeology. Throckmorton was a founding member of the Sea Research Society and served on its Board of Advisors until his death in 1995. He was also a Trustee for NUMA and was an instructor at Nova Southeastern University.

[edit] Discoveries

Cape Gelidonya wreck circa 1200BC: was discovered by Throckmorton in 1959 using information provided him by Kemal Aras, a sponge diver from Bodrum, Turkey who had first seen parts of the vessel's cargo of bronze ingots in 1954, but who had failed to recognize that it was actually a bronze age shipwreck and thus its archaeological importance. The ship is believed to have been Serian.
Yassi Ada wreck circa 4th century AD: was adiscovered in a fully silted ancient Roman harbor at Yassi Ada, Turkey by Peter Throckmorton and Frost in 1958, but was not fully surveyed and excavated until 1967-69.
Pantano Longarini wreck circa 600-650AD: Found by Peter Throckmorton and Gerhard Kapitan at Pantano Longarini in 1965 is of Greek or Southern Italian origin.
Dokos wreck circa 2250-2050 BC: was discovered near Hydra Island, Greece in 1975 by Peter Throckmorton who found cargo from an obviously sunken ship at 20 meters depth. The cargo consisted of pottery of the Cycladic type. This is possibly the oldest wreck discovered to date.

The Sea Remembers: Shipwrecks and Archaeology from Homer's Greece to the Rediscovery of the Titanic, ed. Peter Throckmorton (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1987) ISBN/ISSN: 1555840930 Library of Congress: 87-14273
Oldest Known Shipwreck Yields Bronze Age Cargo. by Peter Throckmorton, National Geographic 121.5 (May 1962): 696-71
The Lost Ships: An Adventure in Underwater Archaeology. by Peter Throckmorton, Boston and Toronto, 1964. ISBN/ISSN: 0864380445
The economics of treasure hunting with real life comparisons, by Peter Throckmorton, 1990
Surveying in Archaeology, by Peter Throckmorton (Aris & Phillips Ltd - Jan 1, 1969) ISBN-10: 085668063X ISBN-13: 978-0856680632
Diving for Treasure, by Peter Throckmorton, published simultaneously by The Viking Press, New York City, and Penguin Books Canada Limited (1977) ISBN/ISSN: 0670274496 Library of Congress: 77-6689
History from the Sea, edited by Peter Throckmorton, ISBN/ISSN: 0864380445
Shipwrecks and Archaeology - The Unharvested Sea, published simultaneously by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited, Toronto (1970), Library of Congress: 76-79373