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Work Begins to Bring Ancient Ship Back to Port

Workers placed the first steel beam under the ancient sunken ship Nanhai No.1 on Tuesday, paving the way for the ship to be hoisted out of water in mid-October, officials said.

Another 34 beams, each stretching 15 meters and weighing more than five tons, would be placed under the ship at a pace of one beam for each day afterwards, said Wang Renyi, an official with the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau in charge of the salvage of the ship.

Salvage operations on the ship Nanhai No.1, produced during the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), started in May as a specially designed steel structure was lowered into the sea near Yangjiang, in south China's Guangdong Province.

The rectangular structure was pulled by a 900-ton tug to a position just above the ill-fated ship.

According to the salvage plan, the upper part of the steel structure will be brought out of the seawater together with the sunken ship, while the lower part will stay on the seabed forever.

Experts spent three years planning the salvage, considered a world first for underwater archaeology. Archaeologists normally excavate the relics on the sunken boat first and then salvage the boat.

The salvage workers had planned to start placing beams under the ship on August 3. The job, however, was delayed by typhoons Pabuk, Sepat, and Wutip.

The sunken ship was accidentally found in 1987 by the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau and a British underwater salvage company. The first ancient vessel to be discovered on the "Marine Silk Road" in the South China Sea, it was named Nanhai No.1, which means South China Sea No.1.

Archaeologists estimate that there are probably 60,000 to 80,000 relics on the sunken ship.


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DivePro - Info and Argonautic - Online Diving Store Announce Strategic Alliance!

Kingston, Jamaica - October, 27 2006 - DivePro - Info Systems, the certification agency independent online platform for scuba professionals and divers and Argonautic - Online Diving Store, a division of ArgoNautic - UnderWater - Activities, Ltd. have teamed up to provide additional benefits for DivePro - Info's members and provide a global outreach for ArgoNautics newest division.

All Regions (Including International) (Scuba PRWire) Sat, 28-Oct-2006 - Thanks to the new partnership between DivePro - Info (www.divepro-info.com) and Argonautic - Online (www.argonautic-online.com) we are now able to offer exclusive recreational and commercial scuba diving equipment, as well as travel discounts of up to 15% (product depending) to our members at DivePro-Info.com! Membership at DivePro-Info.com is a free benefit for visitors at the DivePro - Info website which "unlocks" many of the features the service offers to the diving community.
In addition Argonautic - Online announced to support DivePro - Info Systems with U$5 of every order above U$100 by DivePro - Info members to support this non-profit project.

Mr. Stone, a commercial and recreational scuba diver trainer and CEO of ArgoNautic envisions his companies new partnership as an excellent example of a win - win relationship. "I came across the DivePro - Info project in it's early stages in 2004 and thought it to be an important contribution to the diving community, when we founded the Argonautic - Online Store division we talked about possible partnerships occasionally. I am glad that we finally partnered to provide some benefits to the notoriously underpaid scuba professional community and at the same time offer support to the development of the DivePro - Info project. For us I can see future benefits in expanding our market in a targeted way by reaching far over two thousand potential clients a day..."

Jerry Steuben, a scuba diver trainer and partner at DivePro - Info was happy as well. "We started DivePro-Info in late 2004 as a niche market website because all existent websites at the time focused on recreational divers. We just missed a site with independent, inter training agency focus for diving professionals. What started in 2004 as a small idea received over 500.000 hits until earlier this year and outgrew the original message board concept. We "re-vamped" the whole project into a fully grown website just some month ago. Our collaboration with ArgoNautic is a milestone for us in our vision to provide outstanding services for diving professionals. I hope it is just the first of many more partnerships to support the professional diving community."

The partnership of DivePro - Info and ArgoNautic is a win - win situation for the two companies. For the members of DivePro - Info it is a plain win situation since membership at the web project is free to everybody! The discounts of up to 15% are surely not a negative feature for members.

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