Mr. Terry Allen:

Ordinarily, they would not. If archaeologists had been present, it is highly unlikely that they would have gone down on the dive. That has not happened in the past. In general, the archaeologist would possibly have been on the deck or would have been on the boat and might have been in touch by radio with the divers. However, the idea of an archaeologist going down is not something that has been effected in the past. Archaeologists have not gone down in the past. They would have been present on deck but they would not have been unable to intervene to save the artefact. The bag burst. It was an equipment failure.