The Canberra Times

There are few areas of the Anzac legend that have been neglected when documenting the Gallipoli campaign, but the sea floor around the Dardanelles battle site is one of them.

Maritime archaeologist and team leader Tim Smith said the Beneath Gallipoli project, which ran over two weeks in May and June, had been a success, as the team had discovered more than they expected.

"We knew there was a certain amount of archaeological heritage there, as some of the ships had been documented there before, but we really expected that there would be a lot unknown, and that's exactly what came to light," he said.

"Every time we put the sonar into the water we detected new sites, basically, so we found at least three new shipwrecks that we understand have never been seen or documented before."

The project was funded by the NSW Government, and the team undertook the expedition at Gallipoli under a permit issued by the Turkish Government, under the umbrella of the UNESCO convention on the protection of underwater heritage.

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