5/29/09 I came across this snippet in the Western Morning News today. A nice million pound contract for Geosa. Click the link below for the full story...


A WESTCOUNTRY oceanographer is hoping a £1 million contract to excavate a Dutch shipwreck will be the key to creating world-class scientific laboratories in the region.

Plymouth-based Geosa is to carry out recovery work for the second time, on Rooswijk, a Dutch East India Company trading vessel which sank in the English Channel in 1740. The Dutch government contract will include surveying, excavation, recovery and conservation of artefacts from the sunken ship.

The firm was also behind the excavation of the bow of King Henry VIII's warship Mary Rose, which included the recovery of the stem of the vessel in 2005...

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