This is the north coast of Sinop, with Boz Tepe rising in the right background. The ancient city walls can be seen ringing in the sea.

This is the sheer face of Boz Tepe, looking northwest. There is no safe anchorage along the headland, but to the south its bulk provides a sheltered harbor. Sinop was no doubt a strategic point in the ancient world, and remains so today. The "golf balls" in the left background are a Cold War relic: a NATO radar listening post.

Yusef, one of the crewmen of the survey vessel ORGOZ 2, looks on as MIT mechanical engineering student Sarah Webster logs sonar contacts.

Sarah Webster and MIT graduate student Brendan Foley on the last day of field operations in Sinop, 1998.