NAS and NASAC member Duncan Ross recently left his dive kit at home and went in search of the fabled Formby Footprints – traces of our ancestors and the animals they once hunted on the Sefton coast. Read more here... Read more
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Kimberly Winter has been a NAS member for two years and has found many ways to be part of the NAS community even from remote locations. Here she writes about her most recent online learning experience with us at the Archaeological Science and Conservation of Marine Finds course. Read more
International NAS member Dirk Berg is from Germany, but lives in Kosovo and regularly pops over the border for a bit of diving in Greece. He came to the UK for first time to dive on the underwater photogrammetry course, and loved the challenge ... Read more
Being a Londoner, NAS member Paul Harwood put his reliance on public transport to the test to attend the NAS course about old wood at Stoney Cove in Leicestershire. Read more below to find out about his adventures! Read more
As a NAS member, Ben Saunders recently had the opportunity to participate in a free boat building workshop with the Dunoon CARS project. Here he tells us about his experience that started with a watery commute… Read more
As NAS members and the NAS dive club found out recently, sinking a fake wreck is harder than you think! We've been creating a new 'archaeological site' at Vobster Quay ready to run more Skills Days. Read more
NAS member Karen Moule has been diving for over 30 years and has always had a love of diving on shipwrecks. She has written an overview of the recent NAS Practical Guide to Using Online Archives. Read more
NAS members travelled to the Moray Firth to join in the first on-site course Side Scan Sonar surveying. Geoff Downer reflects on a ‘brilliant weekend’. Discover more here.... Read more
After NAS Member Duncan Ross's story on diving into the American Civil War, they have since been contacted by someone whose descendant was there in 1865. Discover more here... Read more
Rob Konings recently took part in the online training course - Identifying Environmental and Explosive Hazards on Wrecks. Here you can discover his experience of this course. Read more
Paige Churchill-Farmer completed the brand new NAS Discover eLearning courses as part of her orientation to her Kickstart position at MSDS Marine. As a terrestrial archaeology graduate, these courses added a watery element to her existing archaeological knowledge. She reviews the courses here… Read more
Sea Scout skipper Lynn Colletti talks about a group of sea scouts who are getting enthusiastic about anchors through the Big Anchor Project! Discover more here... Read more