How Black Sea mine clearance could reveal ancient wrecks

Eventual Black Sea mine clearance could deploy imaging sonar beyond the normal budgets of maritime archaeologists. Those systems may improve images of roughly a thousand already known deep wrecks and identify additional sites while searching for mines. A separate suggestion links possible submerged buildings to the Gilgamesh flood tradition, but another participant disputes that connection on chronological grounds. The discussion reaches no agreement on that hypothesis. It also raises the question of how many Royal Navy oceanographic assets have retired and how many replacements have arrived. The squadron's survey data is described as valuable enough for it once to have been self-financing.