My first time back doing any NAS work for a while saw me up near my own neck of the woods for a weekend surveying some intertidal wrecks on the North Norfolk beaches.
It was also my first real piece of survey work since commencing the scholarship - this is what all the courses to date have been about
Organised by Simon Draper, the Saturday saw us off Holme-next-the-Sea with two wrecks to look at; the Vicuna and an unknown ship just a few hundred metres away.
To take account of the tides seven of us; Gary, Chris, Nicola, Ben, Mark, Pat and myself; met in the Norfolk Wildlife Trust car park at a very civilised 10:30 (to make best advantage of low tide) for briefing and role allocation. Then it was off to the beach to locate the survey targets and start the field work.
We started on the unknown wreck as it's position on the beach meant it was uncovered first, however it still required a little help to assist in draining of the scour around the hull.
Then it was on to the process of laying out a baseline and marking and measuring detail points and sketching and photographing their positions and taking small wood samples for identification - all familiar tasks from my Intro and Part 1 courses.
We also made use of "Total Station" to obtain detailed measurements with mixed success.
Because of tide restrictions and to make sure we covered as much ground as possible half the group headed over to the Vicuna and a potential fish trap set up alongside to repeat the process and cover, in more detail, some of the points of interest that had been noted during last years survey but which there had been insufficient time to record.
So now I've lots of data to write up and ensure we have a proper consolidated record. but before that we have tomorrow with the Sheraton and the Vina.
If you are interested in learning more about previous surveys of these vessels take a look at the NAS Eastern Region site at for more details http://sites.google.com/site/naseastanglia/home
More updates tomorrow...
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