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In 1960, shortly after he began doctoral studies in classical archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, George Bass † was asked by his department chairman if he would learn to dive in order to excavate a Late Bronze Age shipwreck reported off the Turkish coast by journalist Peter Throckmorton. After taking only six diving lessons at a local YMCA, he left for Turkey where he directed the excavation of the wreck about a hundred feet deep off Cape Gelidonya.
George and his wife, Ann, were newlyweds when they began the three-month field season on this narrow strip of beach surrounded by cliffs. The site at Cape Gelidonya was the first ancient wreck excavated in its entirety on the seabed and the first shipwreck excavation directed and published by a diving archaeologist. At the end of the excavation, with permission from the Turkish government, George started a museum of underwater archaeology in the Bodrum castle.
George and Ann formed the American Institute of Nautical Archaeology in 1972, which later dropped the “American” to reflect its international staff and board of directors, becoming simply the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA). INA quickly expanded its research to four continents and in 1976 affiliated with Texas A&M University, where George
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GEORGE FLETCHER BASS, the pioneering archaeologist who was the first to dive on an underwater site rather than directing divers while remaining on dry land, passed away near his home in Texas on March 2, 2021.
DR. BASS first came to Penn in 1959 to pursue a doctoral degree in classical archaeology studying under the legendary Rodney Young, then Curator of the Mediterranean Section. Just a year later, he was diving off Cape Gelidonya on the Turkish coast to excavate a Late Bronze Age shipwreck reported by journalist Peter Throckmorton, after a mere six diving lessons at the Philadelphia YMCA and an hour’s experience with a tank on his back in a 10-feet-deep pool.
Setting a precedent of publishing preliminary articles within a year of each field season—more promptly than many archaeologists—Dr. Bass published an account of that first season in Expedition in 1961.
His extraordinary progress over the next seven years continued to unfold in the magazine. “The Museum Assembles a Fleet,” published in 1965 with Lloyd Wells, chronicles the development and launch of the two-man submarine Asherah. “The Turkish Aegean: Proving Ground for Underwater Archaeology,” published in 1967 with beautiful drawings by Susan Womer Katzev, is a fascinating overview of the equ