A team from University of South Carolina excavated the remains of an sunken ship Friday on the beach on Hilton Head Island.
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COLUMBIA (AP, WACH) -- A team from University of South Carolina excavated the remains of an sunken ship Friday on the beach on Hilton Head Island.
The team of maritime archaeologists is training students how to excavate and record the remains of an abandoned wooden vessel that was reported to state archaeologists in late 2010.
The crew is using sections of the vessel that was beached near the Harbor Town Golf Links and has a 10-foot portion that is exposed above water. The vessel is believed to have been from the Civil War era and has not yet been explored by archaeologists.
The students are adult scuba divers taking a four-day Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program course at USC. The participants were taught how to find out what type of vessel it is, how old it is, why it was abandoned, and where it was built.
Archaeologists planned to sandbag and reburry the the vessek after excavation to protect it from future deterioration.
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