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NAS member Karen Moule has been diving for over 30 years and has always had a love of diving on shipwrecks. Since attending NAS’s online course on Metal Shipwrecks in May, it has given her a whole new appreciation for them. Discover more about Karen's experience here.... Read more
Rob Konings is a NAS member who is based in the Netherlands but often crosses over to the UK for our training courses. This was not necessary for our recent Archaeological Project Management course as Rob just dialled in and enjoyed a day of online learning with more story telling than he expected. He writes about his experience here - Read more
It is rare for parents to be very involved in their child’s chosen career. Not so for our Education Manager, Peta Knott’s Mum and Dad. They are NAS members and have attended many interesting courses, historical walks and online events over the years. Read below to hear about Peggy Knott’s recent ‘family holiday’ on NAS’s museum experience weekend to snowy Stockholm. Read more
Rob Konings recently took part in the online training course - Identifying Environmental and Explosive Hazards on Wrecks. Here you can discover his experience of this course. Read more
Patrick Wadsworth is a NAS member with an interest in metal ships whether they are above or below the water. Here, he shares his long-awaited hands-on steam ship experience aboard SS Shieldhall. Read more
Join NAS member Sara Hasan as she recounts her recent step back into history on a walking tour of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. Read more
Find out about our weekend messing around in the mud recording the Zula boat remains at Munlochy Bay in the Scottish Highlands. Thanks go to Historic Environment Scotland for funding this training. Read more
NAS and NASAC member Duncan Ross recently left his dive kit at home and went in search of the fabled Formby Footprints – traces of our ancestors and the animals they once hunted on the Sefton coast. Read more here... Read more
Kimberly Winter has been a NAS member for two years and has found many ways to be part of the NAS community even from remote locations. Here she writes about her most recent online learning experience with us at the Archaeological Science and Conservation of Marine Finds course. Read more
International NAS member Dirk Berg is from Germany, but lives in Kosovo and regularly pops over the border for a bit of diving in Greece. He came to the UK for first time to dive on the underwater photogrammetry course, and loved the challenge ... Read more
Being a Londoner, NAS member Paul Harwood put his reliance on public transport to the test to attend the NAS course about old wood at Stoney Cove in Leicestershire. Read more below to find out about his adventures! Read more
As a NAS member, Ben Saunders recently had the opportunity to participate in a free boat building workshop with the Dunoon CARS project. Here he tells us about his experience that started with a watery commute… Read more