Morgan Smith, director of the Geoarchaeology and Submerged Landscapes Lab at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), highlights the formidable challenges of investigating the BLB underwater: extreme weather, strong currents and thick sediment layers make fieldwork “a needle-in-a-haystack problem.” Smith explains that although the potential for preserved artifacts is high thanks to cold‐water conditions, finding them beneath the seafloor is extremely complex and expensive. >>>Read More>>>