Diving down to the Antikythera shipwreck

"A surgeon is not allowed any emotion when holding a scalpel; it's the same with archaeologist/divers. I tried to feel nothing when I was cleaning the area around the human skeleton we found at a depth of 50 meters, so that we could recover the bones 2,000 years after the Antikythera shipwreck went down. There is no room for emotion, just complete concentration and respect for science. This was not, after all, a surface find but the result of excavation in a section of the seabed which required incredible care as human remans in wrecks are very rare and incredibly sensitive," says Theotokis Theodoulou, a veteran archaeologist at the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.

"But then at night, when I went to bed, with the bones of this stranger in my room, I began to think about who he may have been, how he died, that he probably didn't manage to escape and was trapped in the ship...