• Black Sea Odyssey: The official UPenn page for the Black Sea Trade Project, recently redesigned. Innovative archaeological techniques and a holistic approach are currently being used to explore the ancient colony of Sinop from mountaintop to ocean bottom.
  University Museum of University of Pennsylvania one of the oldest and largest archeology museums in the world. Housing a huge collection and very active research programs such as Black Sea Expedition
• University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, (Not to be confused with Penn State)
• College of Arts and Science at the University of Pennsylvania founded 1749 by Ben Franklin
  Who is the famous Dr.Fredrik Hiebert
  • Two summers ago, Penn archaeologist Fredrik Hiebert stumbled across artifacts that restored the reputation of a forgotten archaeologist and improved our understanding of the ancient cultures of Central Asia.
  • Dr. Hiebert is a National Geographic Featured Grantee for his work on the Black Sea Trade Project

• MIT Black Sea Surveys 99
• Deep Sea Archaeology Research Group Directed by Dr. David A. Mindell, the "DeepArch" research group is developing the methodology for using advanced robotics and submersibles to perform high-quality archaeological investigations in the deepest parts of the worlds oceans (from 100 to 6,000 meters deep.)
• Brendard Foley doctoral student in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, worked to organize the 1999 trip

• (Institute for Nautical Archaeology) at Texas A&M University
• The Museum of Underwater Archaeology in Bodrum, Turkey
• Dr.Cheryl Ward is an underwater archaeologist of Texas A&M University at Galveston and is studying ship wrecks in the Egyptian Red Sea

• William Ryan and Walter Pitman of Columbia University
• Ryan and Pitman theory is explained in part of the National Geographic Page
• Noah's Flood what the book looks like. Available at most book stores

• 1853 battle of Sinop helped start the Crimean War
• Current Weather in Sinop if you plan to go
• Sinop Amphora some information in English site written in French
• Museum in Sinop the on-line preview of the Archeological Museum
• TUSLOG DET. 4 SINOP, TURKEY Bill Simons page on the military listening post that was recently handed over to the Turkish Military
• Sinop in Ancient Times by Leslie Payne Delaney, Photography by Edward H. Svoboda

• American Underwater Search and Survey (AUSS) the guys who worked on TWA Flight 800
• Sea Rover owned by (Woods Hole Oceanographic driven by Martin Bowen)
• Benthos maker of the Sea Rover and Mini-Rover Mark II
• MarineSonics maker of side scan sonar

• Turkish Institute of Nautical Archaeology (TINA) the Saros represented TINA in 1999
• INA

• Crimean Coastal Survey Underwater Archaeology Research and Training Center of Kiev University in a partnership with INA

In the Press and on the Air

• National Public Radio's (NPR) National Geographic Radio Expedition came along to Black Sea
• Washington Post: "Trailing Ancient Mariners Diving for History in Black Sea's Abyss"by Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 26, 1999; Page A01
• Scientific American: 1999"WONDERS, Noah's Flood?" by Philip Morrison and Phylis Morrison.
• Discovering Archeology "Dredging up Noah's Flood New Evidence Points to a Deluge From the Black Sea"
• Discovering Archeology "Treasures from the Dead Zone Archaeologists Launch an Underwater Hunt in the Black Sea" by Lisa Parks, Scientific American Discovering Archaeology (included is a slide show of Sinop)

Photos of Turkey and the Black Sea Region

• Odessa on the Crimean penisula. This site has great photos of the region
• Ozgur's Turkey in photos. He got the photos from the Turkish travel guides
• Flag of the Black Sea fleet flown by warships based at theUkrainian naval base of Sevastopol
• Estonian villages on the Black Sea coast
• Bulgian coast of the Black Sea photos and info
• AtsA-DC Assembly of Turkish Student Associates Washington DC. Links and photos around Turkey

Will Dickinson select links

• Lonely Planet If there was such a thing as a prefect series of guide books Lonely Planet would be it. There is a wealth of information including condensed bits of history. I had several guide books along but all the archeologists and travelers I meet swore by Loney Planet. Because I had the latest edition of Lonely Planet I was offered a free bed and dinner by one the pension owner whose establishment was listed in the book. Enough said. More on this in my journal.
• The Total Solar Eclipse of 1999 August 11 is recorded by Nasa. It passed directly through part of the Turkish Black Sea Region. Unfortunity I missed seeing the Eclipse and I also missed the earthquake by a less than two weeks.