On the 10th of May the SAMPHIRE team gave an hour-long talk on marine archaeology, the SAMPHIRE project and recent work we have done in Scotland to the Inverness branch of the British Sub-Aqua club. The venue was the beautifully-situated Kessock Lifeboat Station under Kessock Bridge.

The SAMPHIRE team talking with the Inverness BSAC at North Kessock.

Dr. Simon Davidson spoke about the background to the project and John McCarthy gave a presentation on work done last year at Drumbeg. The Inverness club is the largest in the Highlands and over 30 divers attended the talk. We also gave out flyers from the SAMPHIRE project and also from related projects by our colleagues at the Nautical Archaeology Society and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Many of the divers expressed an interest in joining up with the SAMPHIRE team later in the year.