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} Page 5 Local o-—»■ THE BATTALION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1981 StafT photo by Dave Einscl 10 jWcxas A&M University employees Jim and Bobbe Baker during the summer from a sunken warship off the coast joined a team of archaeologists recovering artifacts of England. ALL AGS BOUND FOR LUBBOCK! THE SION. University Texas Style Rock n’ Roll Welcomes You! Featuring Beer, Mixed Drinks, and the best music in town We’ll be open till 2 a.m. after the A&M Texas Tech Game BRING THIS COUPON: Good for ONE free drink Saturday Oct. 3 at the postp isep stian until : !»"■ eno't •s A&M couple retrieves sunken ship artifacts BY STEPHANIE WILLIAMS Battalion Reporter Texas A&M University ' Two . L a T Uk Ex ■npioyees spent five weeks this working on an excavation a an English warship that sank ^ ou r 400 years ago. • rB In 1545, during the reign of ISC $®enry VIII, the flagship, Mary fflosc, mysteriously sank near ‘ u,Portsmouth as she went to battle the French navy. I Jim Baker, a staff member for the environmental engineering »ri division of the civil engineering “ (fcpartment, and his wife, Bobbe, aiphotographer for the Texas Agri cultural Extension Service and xperiment Station, helped ^archaeologists off the England ^ 'coast in the warship excavation, ■he is a graduate student in anthropology. .TB Margaret Rule, director of the ’"'. Mary Rose excavation, met the "Bakers at an Underwater 1C mrchaeology Conference in New 3e ’ .‘Orleans. She asked them to join 1011 i the archaeology team and partici- ^ Mfpate in the project that has been id e J underway for two years, ring* With Jim having past experi- pjjJence in computer graphics and his 1 wife having experience as a former weelance photographer. Rule he^ said, the husband and wife team atiotBould have a great deal to offer the snterlexcavation. tionif com P u tier technology ce Msed in the excavation helps map and® 6 wreckage,” Jim said, “by [graphic coordinances which de- I termine where the artifacts of the hip are located. The decks and internal struc- ures are weak, he said, and need 3 be mapped out before the di- ’ers remove them. “This is one of the most exciting xcavations going on now,” Jim said, “because the ship carried the latest weaponry and had the latest designs for that time.” “Other artifacts discovered in the wreckage,” Bobbe said, “were leather pouches, balance scales, wooden pocket sundials and navi gational instruments. She said photographing such rare artifacts often requires using a variety of different films, such as infrared, to bring out the details of eroded print on the inside of a book cover. Documentation of artifacts and computer graphics were not the only work done by the Bakers. They spent weekends on assign ment for Braniff Airlines, photo graphing and writing about their travels in Southern England. “But it wasn’t all work,” she said. “We were able to see the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana while in Eng land.” The recovery of the Mary Rose is time consuming and an expen sive project, Jim said, but most of the work has been financed by the Mary Rose Trust, a fund created and headed by Prince Charles. Next summer the remains of the Mary Rose will be completely re moved from the water and dis played in Portsmouth, Bobbe said. “It was an honor to be a part of it,” she said. .X* »X** vL* 'vL* vL» *1* *sL* vL- vL* vX* vX« .t*»X^ •T* ■T' •T' 'T' "T' 'T' 'T* •T' "T* "T* *T* 'T* “T* I TIRED OF COOKING | * * * * 6* * * * I WASHING DISHES? I * * ods * * * * * * * * * * * * * ■jf -x- * * * * * * * * Then dine at the MSG each * evening. How can anyone | prepare a meal for as little * as $2.19 plus tax? 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