Fieldwork Complete

The fieldwork for The Thistlegorm Project is now complete.  The international team of archaeologists, divers and digital technicians are now on their way back to Hurghada ready to begin the task of post processing the several terabytes of data collected over the past 10 days.

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Final Dive – 360 Video

Today marks our final dive on the S.S. Thistlegorm wreck.  Jon Henderson and Mike Postons have spent the last 7 days recording underwater 360 degree video from around the wreck, both inside and out.

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3D Processing Begins

Over the past 6 days Simon has been navigating every inch of the Thistlegorm wreck.  Spending a total of 806 minutes (13hrs 43mins) capturing over 24,307 high resolution images, amounting to 637Gb.  After completing the final dive this data is now ready to be processed into digital 3D models through photogrammetry techniques.

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