Peter Throckmorton DMH, American journalist

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 and underwater archaeologist is one of several pioneer underwater archaeologists frequently described as the Father of Underwater Archaeology. Throckmorton was a founding member of the Sea Research Society

Sea Research Society

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 and served on its Board of Advisors until his death in 1990. He was also a Trustee

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 for NUMA

National Underwater and Marine Agency

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 and was an instructor at Nova Southeastern University

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Discoveries

• The Cape Gelidonya shipwreck (circa 1200 BC) was discovered by Throckmorton in 1959 using information provided him by Kemal Aras, a sponge diver
  Underwater diving
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   from Bodrum
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  , Turkey
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   who had first seen parts of the vessel's cargo of bronze
  Bronze
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   ingots in 1954, but who had failed to recognize that it was actually a bronze age
  Bronze Age
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   shipwreck and thus its archaeological importance. The ship is believed to have been Syrian.
• The Yassi Ada shipwreck (circa 4th century AD) was adiscovered in a fully silted ancient Roman harbor at Yassi Ada, Turkey by Peter Throckmorton and Honor Frost in 1958, but was not fully surveyed and excavated until 1967-69.
• The Pantano Longarini wreck (circa 600-650 AD) found by Peter Throckmorton and Gerhard Kapitan at Pantano Longarini in 1965 is of Greek or Southern Italian origin.
• The Dokos shipwreck
  Dokos shipwreck
  The Dokos shipwreck is the oldest known underwater shipwreck discovery known to archeologists. The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period, 2700-2200 BC....
  
   (circa 2250-2050 BC) was discovered near Hydra Island, Greece in 1975 by Peter Throckmorton who found cargo from an obviously sunken ship at 20 meters depth. The cargo consisted of pottery of the Cycladic type. This is possibly the oldest wreck discovered to date.

Peter also discovered the 1877 iron bark ELISSA lying off the shipbreaker's yard in Perama, Greece. From her lines and fittings and his experience sailing aboard a 'Downeaster' as a teenager, he knew ELISSA for what she was; one of the last square rig ships still in trade even if greatly modified and the trade was smuggling cigarettes. His efforts combined with those of the San Francisco Maritime Museum's founder Karl Kortum's saved the ship until she could find a safe haven with the Galveston Historical Foundation. She is now completely restored and considered one of the finest nineteenth century tall ships still sailing.

Publications

• The Sea Remembers: Shipwrecks and Archaeology from Homer's Greece to the Rediscovery of the Titanic, ed. Peter Throckmorton (New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1987) ISBN/ISSN: 1555840930 Library of Congress: 87-14273
• Oldest Known Shipwreck Yields Bronze Age Cargo. by Peter Throckmorton, National Geographic 121.5 (May 1962): 696-71
• The Lost Ships: An Adventure in Underwater Archaeology. by Peter Throckmorton, Boston and Toronto, 1964. ISBN/ISSN: 0864380445
• The economics of treasure hunting with real life comparisons, by Peter Throckmorton, 1990
• Surveying in Archaeology, by Peter Throckmorton (Aris & Phillips Ltd - Jan 1, 1969) ISBN 085668063X ISBN 978-0856680632
• Diving for Treasure, by Peter Throckmorton, published simultaneously by The Viking Press, New York City, and Penguin Books Canada Limited (1977) ISBN/ISSN: 0670274496 Library of Congress: 77-6689
• History from the Sea, edited by Peter Throckmorton, ISBN/ISSN: 0864380445
• Shipwrecks and Archaeology - The Unharvested Sea, published simultaneously by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, and Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited, Toronto (1970), Library of Congress: 76-79373
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