Through a fortunate series of events, Judy Jarvis recently re-joined NAS. Here she shares her story - which includes the tale of a desk drawer excavation! Read more
Sam Woods-Peel is a recently returned NAS member who has been discovering the benefits of our online courses. Find out what they discovered here... Read more
Duncan Ross is a musician by trade. His love for maritime archaeology goes back to when he was 6-years-old watching the Mary Rose being raised from the Solent on television. Here he tells us about his near ten-year involvement with the NAS. Read more
James MacDonell is a recent NAS member who has taken advantage of our online courses whilst in limbo between university degrees. Here he describes his weekend re-learning how to write reports. Read more
On this page you can find stories from us and from our members, written for our members. Click an article below to learn more. Guidance on writing your Members' Story for the website here
Mel Taylor is a COVID-19 fighting nurse by day and an armchair avocational archaeologist by night. While she can’t get out and about investigating wrecks underwater, she’s discovered that there’s an awful lot you can discover online. Find out what she's discovered here.. Read more
NAS tutor and long-time educator Nick Reed reflects on weekend of ground-breaking developments in the way we are learning during lockdown. Find out what he discovered here... Read more
Long-time diver and trustee of both NAS and MARINElife, Alex Denny gets excited reviewing his water-themed weekend, learning online how to record and monitor marine life and wrecks – all while staying disappointingly dry. Discover more here... Read more
Recent NAS member and second year University of Southampton student Deanna Cunningham shares how her eyes were opened during last week’s online Conservation of Marine Finds course. See what she discovered here... Read more
Steve Cook has been a NAS member for a few years and attends pretty much every course and event and dive that we run. Here he explains how he added yet another dimension to his diving – whilst staying dry. Read more
Sirine Saad El-Dine Ghiye is a graduate archaeologist from the Lebanese University, Tripoli who has a fascination with maritime archaeology and is a diver in progress. Find out what was discovered here... Read more
Four participants from our Online Archiving Workshop for Traditional Boat Digital Records reflect on their experiences. Discover what they found out during the course here... Read more
A grant from Historic England has helped the Nautical Archaeology Society to expand our online educational courses during lockdown. Two new ‘specialist’ courses will be added covering monitoring archaeological sites through photography and photogrammetry and cannon research and recording. Find out more here... Read more