Chris Southerly - Project Archaeologist, Field Director
Mark Wilde-Ramsing - Archaeologist, Project Director, Public Relations
Richard Lawrence - Senior Archaeologist, Branch Head
Nathan Henry - Archaeologist/Conservator, Excavation Supervisor
Dave Moore - Archaeologist, Mapping/Documentation Supervisor
Julep Gillman-Bryan - Dive Safety Officer, Boat Captain, Underwater Photographer
Jim Martin (Volunteer) - Marine Biologist, Videographer
Sarah Watkins-Kenney - Project Conservator, Recovery Monitoring
Wendy Welsh - Field Conservator, Artifact Documentation, Archaeology
Eric Nordgren - Field Conservator, Artifact Documentation
Karen Browning - Surface Photography, Shore Support
Tom Piner - Captain, R/V Shellpoint
John Masters (Volunteer) - Intersal Diver, Remote sensing

Overall, conditions during the week were favorable with light winds from the north and relatively calm seas. Visibility varied with the tides ranging from a maximum of ten feet near high tide to almost zero during the falling tide. Water temperature was comfortably in the mid-70s.

• Sunday, 3 October: Operating from R/V Snap Dragon, UAB divers completed site setup. The first diver located the wreck site and placed the first mooring buoys. The 150-foot baseline and reference tags were placed while the remaining moorings were located and buoys placed. A general site reconnaissance was completed and sand elevation data collected, while two parallel transect lines marking the excavation area were triangulated and installed. Only one faint target was located when a controlled metal detector survey was conducted of the excavation area.
  
  
• Monday, 4 October: R/V Shellpoint was placed on a three-point mooring using the North and West moorings and the East screweye (NM/WM/ESE). Detailed initial elevations were recorded along the excavation transect along with probing depths for buried artifacts while the 6-inch and 3-inch pump intakes were setup and tested. Excavation commenced in the afternoon while documentation mapping was completed on newly exposed areas of the site, east of the main pile. By the end of day, some unidentified concretions and the cascabel of a cannon were exposed.
  
  
• Tuesday, 5 October: Shellpoint again moored on the NM, WM and ESE. Excavations and mapping continued throughout the day. Artifacts exposed during excavation included a new cannon (C-23), two deadeyes, a possible third deadeye, a cook kettle, a section of wooden plank, two barshot, a lead concretion, a piece of folded lead, and a pewter plate.
  
  
• Wednesday, 6 October: Shellpoint again moored on NM, WM, and ESE. Excavation was proceeding ahead of schedule so the decision was made to extend the test area east to the baseline and twenty feet further west. Excavation continued once transect lines were extended further west. Mapping began on artifacts uncovered by the previous day's excavations. Video documentation began of the exposed portions of the site and the newly opened excavation area. In addition, an updated biological survey was conducted around the main ballast pile. A diver-held hardwired video provided images to non-diving surface personnel and the media visiting the site. Artifacts exposed during excavation included a chain concretion, an unidentified "double-rod" concretion, a lead sounding weight, a cask hoop concretion, and more ballast stones.
  
  
• Thursday, 7 October: Shellpoint again moored on NM, WM, and ESE. Excavation continued until approximately noon primarily as cleanup for documentation. Once completed, digital video was shot of the artifacts in the test excavation. Elevations were taken on each exposed artifact. The mosaic photo grid was then assembled and placed at the west end of the excavation area and digital photographs taken. On reviewing the images, visibility was too poor for good images and additional photography was postponed. Detailed mapping continued on the artifacts exposed throughout the day.
  
  
• Friday, 8 October: Shellpoint moored on NM, WM, and ESE. Mapping continued and visiting scientists were given a tour while waiting for visibility to improve for photography. Visibility did not improve sufficiently to allow photography. Several small objects and concretions were recovered before backfilling the test excavation. Backfilling was completed and reference lines, baseline, and moorings were removed from the site.