He learned to swim in one YMCA lesson and dived a Bronze Age wreck
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He learned to swim in one YMCA lesson and dived a Bronze Age wreck
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He learned to swim in one YMCA lesson and dived a Bronze Age wreck
In this episode, we tell how George Fletcher Bass went from an English literature student to the director of the first fully excavated ancient shipwreck, and how a chain of unlikely events - a university prank, a spring break in Sicily, military service, and one YMCA diving lesson - placed him at the right moment to create underwater archaeology. What sequence of choices and accidents made 1960 the tipping point?
Person: George Fletcher Bass
Date: December 9, 1932 (birth); March 2, 2021 (death); 1960 (dive)
Location: Cape Gelidonya, Turkish Mediterranean
Event: First fully excavated ancient shipwreck using systematic archaeological method
Occupation: Archaeologist; founder of underwater archaeology
- Suspended from an exchange program at Exeter for a prank, Bass joined roughly forty other students who traveled to Sicily with unexpected free time.
- Exposure to Mediterranean ruins in Taormina led Johns Hopkins to build Bass a custom archaeology major after he returned from England.
- After graduate study, Bass served 1957-1959 in South Korea commanding a thirty-man security group, honing logistical and field-command skills.
- In 1959 Peter Throckmorton alerted Professor Rodney Young to a Bronze Age wreck off Cape Gelidonya; Young invited Bass to direct the excavation.
- Bass took one practical diving lesson at a YMCA in Philadelphia weeks before descending to the eighty- to ninety-foot site and applying land-archaeology methods underwater.
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