National Archeology Week - Cassandra Philippou

"Muddy Waters"- Katharina Fabricius

Bron is off today (Peter standing in for the weather report) and Anth is running the day. Thanks for the listener who followed up that Jessie Martin was selling his boat - with will to pay. For more info follow the link.

The collective noun of the week was for crocodile's a bask or a float (pretty much based on their behavior and the whiting (a pod)

Archeology is not just about the Mary Rose and the Pyramids - There are a wide range of activities to get Archeology out of the closet and into the public mind. Melbourne Museum is doing one seminar on diving in the underwater saloon of the City of Launcestion. The City of Launcestion used to do the run from Melbourne to Launcestion and went down in 1865, and is now a protected site (so you can't dive on it). If you want to know more about diving on this it is on at 7pm on Tuesday night - book on 1300 130 152. Other talks include Chinas origin, The Pilthdown hoax, medieval sites and the role of archeology in investigating war crimes.

50 % of coral could be gone from the barrier reef by 2050 - while that can't be blamed on any one factor, one of the growing factors is the deposition of sediment from the agricultural land. Not only is the tonnage increasing, but the increased nutrient loads, and the interaction between the two.

When the two are combined, it produces marine snow, a highly enriched precipitate of sediment and nutrients, held together by bacterial slime.

There are still increasing areas being cleared for agriculture, and the nutrient loads are still increasing per unit areas - so there is a need to change the land use practices if we are to stop the predication from coming true.

This needs to be a long term commitment, and the whole story is covered in the SBS documentary to be broadcast on Tuesday May 20th at 8pm.

Radio Marinara does not endorse Anth's comments on taping "The Bill" that may be on the ABC at the same time - because we can spell copyright.

Diving started by jumping over the side of a boat with a bucket on your head and breathing as long as you could. The some smart person invested the copper dive helmet in the 1820's, where they finally started pumping air into the bucket.

The first standard dive suit use in Melbourne seems to have been in the 1850's when someone dropped gold coins into the Yarra and wanted them back !!

The pearl industry was the first commercial use of diving when the new rich pearlers has worked out that if you went under the water you could get the stuff that others couldn't see.

Pearling was rife with racism, and believe it or not the pearlers made the argument that the Japanese pearlers should be exempt from immigration laws because they had were better able to see the pearl shell because of the shape of their eyes.

One of the great scuba innovations - the modern regulator, was invented by a Melbourne man - who then got run made an offer he couldn't refuse by a French Aqualung company.

" Summertime "

" San River"

"Silence and Whispers "

Those Bloody McKennas

Beth Gibbons

The Prairie Dogs

Dive conditions are fine - according to Brett sitting in his driveway. Water temperatures are on the way down until September.