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Submersible and Research Vessel, Black Sea, 2001

Photo: Submersible and research vessel

A team of archaeologists with the Black Sea Project lowers a remotely operated submersible named Little Hercules from a research vessel. In 2000, when this photo was taken, the project discovered several impeccably preserved ancient shipwrecks in the depths of the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Deep Black Sea," May 2001, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Randy Olson

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