By the end of September and the beginning of October the DEGUWA has carried out an underwater excavation in the bay of Santa Manza in Corsica. This site had been investigated two years before by the DEGUWA. In this second campaign the site was revisited for a more thorough examination.

In October 2003 the DEGUWA carried out a campaign for 14 days at the southeastern coast of Corsica. Three sites were selected for detailed inspection, i.e. the Punta di Rondinara, the passage between the isles of Lavezzi and Cavallo as well as the bay of Santa Manza.
Andreas M. Stolpe has also written an article on this campaign in Taucher.Net ( Part I | Part II ) (German!).

The DEGUWA was approached on behalf of an old collection of underwater finds, which originated from southern Sardinia. The examination of these artefacts soon raised the question of the context, although it was clear that it could be only reconstructed partially. Hence the DEGUWA set up a team of divers amongst its members, which met in Fall 2001 in southern Sardinia to carry out a survey.

"German archaeologists on an Andes-expedition.
A spectacular expedition in the Peruvian rainforest. A German research team bundles diving equipment and high-tech sonars on horses and mules. Their destination: the Laguna de Los Condores, a legendary lake in the Andes in an altitude of 4000m. Recently 200 well-preserved mummies of Inca ancestors were discovered in a burial house in proximitry to the lake. The assumption of the archaeologists: the lagoon might have served the tribe "Chachapoya" for sacrifices. Will the German research team find the votive offerings of the Cloud Warriors? As first human beings ever they made the attempt to dive in this lake."
"a&o buero" shot a TV documentary about this expedition. The just cited text is the introduction to this documentary by "a&o buero". Their website features the Making-Of and excerpts from the film text.

The 5. August was a special day of our campaign in Ognina 98: Four vessels anchored off the harbour entrance of the small fishing village Ognina, sheltered by a small preliminary island. An elated group of people witnessed calmly an archaeological climax: The salvage of a stone anchor-stock from the 5th century BC.
It is by no means an unimportant find, as it marks the chronological division line between one & two armed anchors and hence fits in as link to illustrate a gradual rather than sudden change at the end of the 6th century BC. The salvage was of course not the only undertaking of our 4-week campaign. The main goal was a survey at a shoal off the coast. This investigation bore a further surprise for the archaeologists...

In 1995 sportdivers discovered off Dembki in the Pasnitz estuary (ca. 100 km westerly of Gdansk, Poland) a wreck. According to the nomenclature of the Polish Maritime Museum it was registered as W32. The archaeologists were in a lucky position, as the first excavation yielded the name of this ship: "General Carleton of Whitby 1777". This lucky circumstance facilitated further research to reconstruct the dramatic end of this once proud merchantman. Another report about this wreck could be found on Per Åkesson's homepage.

Between the 14th and 29th July, DEGUWA in conjunction with the Soprintendenza in Syracuse (Sicily) carried out an underwater archaeological campaign at a shoal off Cape Ógnina. The mission of the DEGUWA-team was the completion of a project, which was started in 1979 by sportdivers of the VDST under the direction of Dr. Friedrich Naglschmid and Gerhard Kapitän.
Apart from the rediscovery of the findspot "Ógnina IV" on "Secca di Ógnina" and its reassessment and exact measurements, the investigation on land and under water was sought to be completed. After 15 years this was the first underwater-archaeological campaign in Italian waters, that was carried out under German direction. The website of the University of Duisburg features a report about the underwater-archaeological campaign "Ógnina IV" (German!).

References on the Mahdia-project:

Das Wrack. Der antike Schiffsfund von Mahdia.
Hrsg.: Gisela Hellenkemper Salies. Köln 1994.

DEGUWA-Rundbrief Nr. 8, 4.Jahrgang 1994

In Poseidons Reich. Archäologie unter Wasser.
Hrsg. DEGUWA. Mainz 1995.

Neue Forschungen zum Schiffsfund von Mahdia.
Sonderdruck aus Bonner Jahrbücher. 1996.