The 350 artifacts collected in 93 dives made it the most successful excavation period since the discovery of the shipwreck. It was also the first year that the team had been able to link artifacts to specific crew members. Divers used suits with air hoses and umbilical lines that pumped warm water into the suits from the surface for about three hours, Mr. Harris said. Do they imply circumstances that called for the abandonment of rank and a reassignment of cabins in a crisis? “As mortality increased, several people could have occupied them,” Marc-André Bernier, the manager of Parks Canada’s underwater archaeology team, said in an interview, referring to the cabins.

Source: New York Times February 20, 2020 19:18 UTC