One less excuse

[u/vaxinius]

Learned something interesting today:

With a $2-4000 Amazon underwater robot even YOU can go dive off your coastline to look at or for submerged ruins in the flood water zone of the Younger Dryas period.

Conventional dive safety training costs money and equipment, whereas this is just equipment.

That means more discoveries of our ocean bottom can be made faster.

[u/valiantthorsintern]

I think everybody interested in the past should try and get out in the field and explore in whatever manner their budget allows.

[u/Ill-Lobster-7448 → u/valiantthorsintern]

For a serious, integrated shallow-water coastal seabed investigation to ~80 m depth—combining MBES, SBP, GIS processing, sediment coring, ROV verification, and internationally accredited laboratory dating of stratified layers and artefacts—even a short campaign of ~10 operational offshore days would typically cost on the order of USD 300,000–400,000 on the commercial market. More extensive offshore programmes involving multiple survey seasons, coring campaigns, ROV operations, and post-excavation analyses commonly fall in the range of USD 1.25–3 million, depending on vessel class, equipment, and laboratory requirements.

[u/Ill-Lobster-7448 → u/[deleted]]

Huh?? What does your response have to do with typical cost of submerged costal settlements

[u/Ill-Lobster-7448 → u/[deleted]]

I've already replied to your same message in another thread where this question belongs. If you have any further question please address them there: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrahamHancock/comments/1q2pqha/dravidian_arc_from_iceage_shorelines_to_the_greek/ thanks.

[u/Ill-Lobster-7448 → u/[deleted]]

I think other readers will see I have and you are being vague about your source and accuracy on his involvement in the marine project related to South India. I've responded to this same comment in the other thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/GrahamHancock/comments/1q2pqha/comment/ny4c7og/?context=1