Where does one receive training / schooling to become an underwater archaeologist?
Archaeology underwater is really no different from archaeology as practiced on land, but some different methods and equipment are employed. To work competently, and above all safely, underwater the archaeologist has to have the academic and professional training of an archaeologist, and the skills of a scientific diver. Today most underwater archaeologists around the world have attended a university and qualified as archaeologists, usually through an undergraduate degree. They have learned to dive, and many obtain masters degrees from a university which offers specialized underwater archaeology programme. The fully qualified underwater archaeologist will have undertaken hundreds of dives, and will have mastered the full range of methods and techniques used underwater, and will be able to scientifically report the archaeological discoveries in the form of reports, articles, and public presentations. For those who are not professional archaeologists, there are many opportunities to parti
