Expeditions URC RGS

Our colleagues and partners from U-Boat Malta and Messina University invited URC RGS to take part in the expedition to the wrecks in the Strait of Messina. We invited our students-hydronauts who completed the pilot course in the RCC “Orlyonok” to join the underwater adventure.

Lake Ladoga harbors many secrets in its dark and cold waters. The Underwater Research Center, RGS has resolved them and restored the historic course of events connected with this lake.

The Underwater Research Center joined the expedition of the Defense ministry of Russia and RGS at Matua, Great Kuril ridge, the Okhotsk sea. This year’s goals and tasks are: to survey the island’s aquatic area, find underwater fortifications and explore the American and Japanese battle and cargo ships sunk during the World war II.

It is the fourth season that the team of the Underwater Research Center, RGS is conducting excavations on the Lubeck merchant ship Archangel Raphael which sank in 1724. It is one of the richest objects in the Baltic sea. This year we are going to continue our archaeological work.