Archéologie sous-marine/ République de Trinité-et-Tobago. Dr. Kroum Batchvarov, head of the Rockley Bay Research Project, announces discovery of a 17th-Century shipwreck in Scarborough Harbour, Tobago. In partnership with the government of Trinidad & Tobago and the Tobago House of Assembly, Dr. Batchvarov, assistant professor of maritime archaeology at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Anthropology and the Maritime Studies Programme, and affiliated scholar of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, has been leading a multi-phased investigation to find and study the remains of the vessels that were sunk in the 1677 Battle of Tobago, one of the fiercest actions fought in the Caribbean in the 17th century.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:09:43 +0000
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