Maritime Archaeological Exploration

Multi pronged approach for maritime archaeological exploration. The Edgetech side-scan 

sonar and sub bottom profile provides the capability to undertake non invasive surveys 

Up to a depth of 200m. Our research wing will employ multi disciplinary approach to survey natural river outlets and sink holes in the sea to gather data. Depending on the significance of the cluster the Sub-bottom profiler will be deployed in the second survey to look for structures which have  been covered by the sea silt and will look shallow silt coverage of the promising site up on which a specialised team of technical divers will be deployed for visual reconnaissance and confirmation. Technical diver will operate till a depth of 100m post which a miniature Remotely Operated vehicle with compressed  air blasting capabilities will be deployed For visual reconnaissance and confirmation.

Bringing Trimix to exploration will be the cornerstone of this endeavor. Trimix will

ensure that the deployed dive team will operate with better situational awareness 

and reduce the associated risks of narcosis; this along with accelerated decompression 

will bring the overall costs of survey down compared to international scientific diving rates.

Extended bottom time , reduced decompression time and diver safety are one of the few benefits  of an integrated dive centre; active skills enchantment and training of the next generation maritime explorers will be the bed rock of this wing of the centre. Offering customized skills development to  the local community.

A computational array of 36 Nvidia rtx3090 is deployed in a Linux distribution to receive data from side-scan sonar and sub bottom profiler. Raw data will be fed into the computational array, Using R data and python programming language; the data set will be used as trainers to predict future possible sites of archaeological significance based on the sea floor data from the survey. Sea floor data collect will be published as open source data nationally to enhance over all maritime research capabilities of Indian scholars and improve navigation in coastal areas without harming shallow natural corals due to lack of openly available information. Further more open source sharing of large coral structures will provide local fishermen relevant information to safe guard economically significant section from destructive fishing techniques.

The Tamilians are the longest continually inhabited Coastal civilization; dating well into the pre-Holocene era. A culturally diverse ethnic group bound by the oldest language in the Indian Subcontinent. This unending civilization and its maritime history and practices will be core area of focus for the Maritime archaeological wing. To Document, study it's rich and long history in a sustainable manner by partnering with the state government of Tamil Nadu and with private patrons. All data gathered will be put on the internet via open source sharing to facilitate further study of this truly unending civilization. The entire Archaeological exploration wing will operate under a non-profit ethos who's sole directive is to gather data and disseminate it at cost.