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| | Johns Hopkins Magazine -- April 1997 |
 | | Twenty-six years old and a doctoral candidate at Penn in archaeology, Bass didn't know that, according to the top people in the discipline, true archaeology--with precise mapping, painstaking excavation, and meticulous cataloging of artifacts-- was impossible underwater. |
 | | Over the ensuing 37 years, Bass has figured out enough to be regarded as the founder of nautical archaeology, the systematic scientific excavation of ancient shipwrecks. |
 | | To promote nautical archaeology and develop the discipline, Bass in 1973 founded the INA, the first institute of its kind anywhere in the world. |
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