Organizers would also like to have an expanded exhibit of the MG's cargo at the Underwater Archaeology Branch building at Fort Fisher (which is always closed when I go there). I sure would like to see some of that stuff.
Chris Fonvielle would even like to see funds raised for a documentary on the Modern Greece, it's history, excavation and artifacts to come out in 2014. The nonprofit North Carolina Maritime History Council would do private fund-raising for it.
Both Fonvielle and Ramsing-Wilde would like to have a survey done of the shipwreck site using modern remote sensing technology which is tentatively scheduled for March and April. Marine Technology students from Cape Fear Community College would take part in it.
This March, conservation students from East Carolina University will complete the task they started last year where they remove, clean, catalog and assess shape of the remaining MG artifacts that are still stored in salt water tanks where they were placed fifty years ago in the Underwater Archaeology Branch shed at Fort Fisher.
Thousands of objects are still not processed these fifty years later. Some of the items have definitely undergone further deterioration.
One other thing Fonvielle would like to do would be too collect the oral histories from divers and others who worked on recovering the items back in 1962.
Perhaps a Trip back to Fort Fisher Is In Order. --Old B-R'er
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