For the first time in AUB, students minoring in the Marine Sciences and Culture program became licensed divers through the field school conducted in northern Lebanon. The program, funded by the Honor Frost Foundation, gave them the opportunity to practice non-invasive survey techniques at underwater sites to better understand maritime cultural landscapes in Lebanon.


MSCU students during the underwater recording exercise. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.

Students swimming over various wreckage at the modern wreck site ‘Smashed’. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.

MSCU student sketching a piece of wreckage during the underwater recording exercise during MSCU field school. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.
MSCU students practicing how to sketch a wreck site and reviewing underwater signs. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.

Student placing a scale bar and a north arrow in front of an object that is being photographed, as part of the MSCU underwater recording exercises. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.
Students exploring the wreckage from the modern wreck site ‘Smashed’. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.

Students exploring the modern wreck site ‘Smashed’. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.
Students learning how to conduct offset measurements of archaeological artifacts on a modern shipwreck off the coast of Tabarja. Lebanon, 2022.

Students learning how to conduct offset measurements of archaeological artifacts on a modern shipwreck off the coast of Tabarja. Lebanon, 2022.
Students exploring the modern wreck site ‘Smashed’. Tabarja, Lebanon 2022.
Students during open water training. Lebanon, 2022.
Professors and students during open water training. Lebanon, 2022.

Student during survey work. Lebanon, 2022.

Coastal survey. Lebanon, 2022.

Photogrammetry session. Lebanon, 2022.