Archaeology Odyssey

Jason has lent its name to the Jason Projects, which are dedicated to educating children in science and deepwater archaeology. The investigation at Skerki Bank in 1989 was the first Jason Project. Conceived and directed by Robert Ballard, it included the first interactive television directly from the sea floor.

McCann is mainly responsible for the material on Skerki Bank and Brody for the material on the Ashkelon and Black Sea wrecks. Artifacts from both the Skerki Bank and Ashkelon are now on exhibit at the Institute for Exploration at the Mystic Aquarium, in Mystic, Connecticut.

Lucan, Civil War 8.174–85.

Aratus, Phaenomena 37–44.

Lucian, Navigium 7–9.

See Robert D. Ballard, Lawrence E. Stager et al., “Iron Age Shipwrecks in Deep Water off Ashkelon, Israel,” American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002).

James S. Romm, The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration, and Fiction (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), p. 16.

Anthony J. Parker, Ancient Shipwrecks of the Mediterranean and the Roman Provinces. BAR International Series 580 (London: British Archaeological Reports/Tempus Reparatum, 1992), p. 5, table 1.

See Isabella Herb, “Ethylene: Notes Taken from the Clinical Records,” in Anesthesia and Analgesia (December, 1923), pp. 210, 231–232; Herb, “Further Clinical Experiments with Ethylene-Oxygen Anesthesia,” Anesthesia and Analgesia (December, 1927), pp. 258–262; A.B. Luckhardt and J.B. Carter, “Physiologic Effects of Ethylene: A New Gas Anesthetic,” Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 80 (January–June 1923), pp. 765–770.