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Monday, April 27, 1987A~he Battalion/Page 5
Nautical students
search for 2 ships
used by Columbus
By Audrey Cardenas
Reporter
Gallega and Vizcaina are names
from the past, but these two ships
still are being sought by a group of
Texas A&M nautical archaeology
students.
The ships, which were a part of
Columbus’ original journey to the
new world, were abandoned in 1502
by Columbus and his crew at St.
Anne’s Bay, located off Jamaica’s
northern coast.
“The two vessels are being sought
after because no identifiable ship has
been found from this time period,”
said Mark Meyers, an A&M anthro
pology graduate student.
The period from 1492-1522 is of
particular interest to archaeologists
because this was the period of explo
ration and discovery in which ships
were sailing around India lobking
for trade in the New World, Meyers
said.
“Columbus’ ships were the first
true ocean-going ships,” Meyers
said. “They were the first to make
trans-Atlantic voyages, but there is
zero archaeological evidence to show
how these ships were built.”
The drawings archaeologists have
are crude, he said, because there was
no science of drawing or any techni
cal recordings at that point in his
tory.
For four years, groups of A&M
nautical archaeology students, led by
Roger Smith, a field scientist for the
Institute of Nautical Archaeology,
have been searching St. Anne’s Bay
for the shipwrecks, but have had
little success.
“They have found odds and ends,
but nothing of much significance,”
said Karen Gardner, an A&M an
thropology graduate.
One of the reasons for this is the
weathering of underwater land for
mation by river and ocean currents,
she said. This weathering process
has expanded the bay area by hun
dreds of feet, which has made sur
veying the area a difficult process,
she said.
“The area now does not match up
exactly with the way it was when Co
lumbus was there,” Gardner said.
“For example, there is a swamp in
part of the bay that used to hot be
there.”
While searching for the location
of the wrecks, the students used sub
bottom sonar, a technique which
sends sonar pulses irito sediment
and records th& sedimentary den
sity, Meyers said. The more dense
the area, the more likely there is
something to be found, he said.
Also, core samples from the bay
were taken to tff to help reconstruct
it to its formation of the days when
Columbus sailed the area, Meyers
said.
“The trouble with a lot of sites is
that you never know what it looked
like 500 years ago and there are no
accurate maps. The techniques used
now are really helpful,” he said.
Unfortunately, the techniques
were not enough to help the A&M
students locate the ships.
“Any sort of bad heavy Veather,
like a hurricane, could have de
stroyed them,” Meyers explained.
“It’s suprising how many ships do
last than those that don’t, but it was
feally no suprise that we couldn’t
find the ships we were looking for,”
he said.
Although the St. Anne’s Bay ex
ploration proved disappointing,
these students afe seeking other
shipwrecks in an attempt to learn;
more about ships from the explora
tion and discovery period.
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Anti-abortion signs
cause B-CS conflict
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By Patricia Lowry
Reporter
Several anti-abortion signs have
appeared around Bryan-Colhege
Station and have caused controversy
between pro-life and pro-choicC
groups advocating their sides of the
delicate abortion issue.
Six signs, 4 feet by 8 feet, were
placed at various churches and busi
nesses and read, “4,000 Americans
died today, and yesterday and the
day before and the day before; stop
abortion.”
Warren Grote, owner of B-CS
Trophies in Bryan, has a sign in
front of his store and said the idea to
post the signs came about at a New
Life in Christ Church meeting.
“I know I was supposed to do this
— take a stand,” Grote said. “I feel
people should be aware that 4,000
people do actually die every day be
cause of abortion.”
Grote said he has not had many
complaints about the sign, except
from some members of the Texas
A&M chapter of the National Orga
nization for Women, who have
threatened to picket his business be
cause of the sign.
Dede Whitley, vice president of
A&M’s NOW chapter, confronted
Grote about the sign.
“I wanted to find out who was be
hind the sign — if it was one source
or several — and if the sign was
placed there legally,” Whitley said. *
Dr. Wendy Stock, faculty adviser
for NOW, said, “It is a gross distor
tion to equate these signs with a
woman’s right to determine her re
productive future.
“We find them an affront to
women everywhere.”
Rita Shea, a senior community
health major from La Marque,
agreed that the signs are offensive,
but for a different reason.
“I think everyone has a right to his
or her opinion, but I don’t feel they
should use their business to express
their personal opinions,” she sard.
Grote said, “You express your
opinion through your life, and my
business is my life. Our life is supr
posed to be patterned after Christ
and opinions should be expressed all
the time. v
“It would be hypocritical por
tray my business life different from
my personal life.”
Grote said there has been some
vandalism to the sign, but it hasn’t
been a big problem.
“We had a few eggs and beer bot
tles thrown at the sign, and a few
weeks ago someone spray-painted
it,” he said.
Whitley said NOW is going to dis
cuss the signs with some of the mem
bers of the New Life in Christ
Church.
“If nothing earn be worked .out,, we
are not adverse to picketing the busi
nesses where the signs are located,”
she said.
Houston’s Hobby airport
has many near-collisions
HOUSTON (AP) — The number
of near collisions between aircraft
reported at Hobby Airport in the
last four years was nearly nine times
the number recorded at Interconti
nental Airport, the Houston Chroni
cle reported Sunday.
In a copyright story, the Chroni
cle reported that Federal Aviation
Administration records show that
between Jan. 1, 1983 and the end of
1986, 17 near collisions occurred
within 15 miles of Hobby. But only
two were reported within 15 miles of
Intercontinental, where there is
slightly more air traffic.
There have been two near misses
reported this year, and both still are
under investigation. The latest oc
curred last week when an American
Airlines Boeing 727 pilot took eva
sive action to miss a small, twin-en
gine aircraft about seven miles
southeast of Intercontinental, offi
cials said.
According to the FAA, when a
collision is avoided by chance rather
than pilot action, the incident is clas
sified “critical.” Less than 100 feet
separation would be considered crit
ical.
A classification called “potential”
is used when a pilot avoids a proba
ble air collision and generally means
two aircraft came, within 500 icet of*)
one another.
There were 10 “critical” near colli
sions reported within 15 miles of
Hobby and one within 15 miles of
Intercontinental in the four-year pe
riod. Seven such incidents at Hobby
were classified as “potential,” and >
Intercontinental had only one.
Six near misses within 15 miles of
Hobby were reported to the FAA r>
last year, half of them critical.
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airports like Hobby, where commer
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traffic mix saying there was nothing
unsafe about it.
“I don’t consider the traffic a.?
problem at Hobby — I consider it a
challenge,’* he said. “Any time you
have a transpoftafibn system of any
kind in a big city like Houston, it’s a
challenge.”
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