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Exploration for shipwrecks off Sunchi Reef, Goa, west coast of India

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Title Exploration for shipwrecks off Sunchi Reef, Goa, west coast of India
 
Creator Tripati, S.
Gaur, A.S.
Sundaresh
Bandodkar, S.N.
 
Subject archaeology
underwater exploration
surveying underwater
wrecks
ships
 
Description Archival records show that a number of ships have sunk in the waters off Goa, on the west coast of India, as a result of foul weather, warfare and human error. Explorations were carried out in 1997-99 to locate shipwrecks using a boat-towed metal detector and visual surveys in 3 to 9m water depth off Sunchi Reef. A wreck was discovered and its investigation revealed guns, a shot, potsherds, glass bottle pieces, a broken rudder and dressed granite stone blocks. These finds suggest that the wreck dates from the Portuguese period (seventeenth to eighteenth century AD) and was therefore a wooden-hulled ship. The most probable cause of the wrecking was the shallow laterite shoals in the region. Although modest in scope, this project is important as one of the few underwater investigations yet to be undertaken by Indian archaeologists.
 
Date 2009-01-07T10:51:05Z
2009-01-07T10:51:05Z
2001
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier World Archaeology, Vol.32; 355-367p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1580
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [2001]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Taylor and Francis