04 October 2022 : Tiago Fraga - Ria de Aveiro Ship Wrecks :
Archaeology, Dredgeology, and Mayhem: A tale of five? wrecks.
Ria de Aveiro has the most significant concentration of shipwrecks in Portugal. The most famed is Ria de Aveiro A, a 15th-century proto-caravel or a 17-century thinker boat. However several other vessels have been found, some were excavated, and others await brave intrepid souls that can bring projects to their full completion.
Ria de Aveiro B/C, Ria de Aveiro D, E, F, G, H, I, J, soon the entire alphabet will be completed with the wrecks in these inner waters.
Our talk will navigate through ria de Aveiro, its legends, its folklore, its funny vessels, and the happy and sad tales of some of the most iconic and mysterious shipwrecks of Portugal that lie in the seabed, some only 15cm deep.
Tiago Miguel Fraga is the CEO of TMF, UNI. Was part of the pioneering team of Centro de Operações de Arqueologia Subaquática - Expo 98, and worked as an archaeologist in the National Center for Nautical and Underwater Archaeology. Was a Portuguese delegate in UNESCO for the convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Was Senior Archaeologist of the Portuguese National Institute of Archaeology. Was Graduate Assistant Non-Teaching at Texas A&M University. Has more than twenty-five years of experience in archaeology.
Master of Arts in Anthropology by Texas A&M University Nautical Archaeology Program, and Graduate Student in Archaeology at Universidade do Algarve. Former Guest lecturer at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. Was PI of Investigação da Carta Arqueológica Subaquática Baía de Lagos (CHAM), Co-PI of Projecto de Investigação Patacho Pedro Dias (INA-CHAM). Former GANT of Centro de História de Além-Mar, (FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa e Universidade dos Açores). Expert in computerized reconstruction of shipwrecks, subject that taught at 2009 a 2012 at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and Instituto Politécnico de Tomar. Presented in more than one hundred congresses.
Book author and author of several articles. His latest is : Da Descoberta De Um Sitio Arqueológico À Recriação De Um Monumento Histórico. Arqueológico A Canhoneira Faro (Lagos). Revista Temporis [Ação] (Periódico acadêmico de História, Letras e Educação da Universidade Estadual de Goiás). Cidade de Goiás; Anápolis. V. 17, N. 02, p. 238-255 de 415, jul./dez.,2017.
Recipient of several awards, scholarships and fellowships as National Geographic Society / Waitt Foundation, Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian, da Luso-Americana Foundation, Texas A&M, Jack Petchy Foundation e National Science and Technology Foundation (Portugal).
In scientific diving has certification from American Academy of Underwater Sciences (Texas A&M Galveston) CMAS P1 (1997), Nitrox TDI (2003), Master Scuba Diver Naui (2004), Cavern Diver NSS-CDS (2004), Rescue Diver PADI (2005), Dive Master PADI (2006).
