Involved in wreck survey

Dr. Aggeliki Simossi, former Director of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, initiated the "Return to Antikythera" research project, which she co-directs from 2021 to 2025 with Lorenz Baumer.

Michel Blumenthal is an engineer at the R&D department of Hublot watchmaking manufacture. He started his involvement with the Antikythera Mechanism by creating gear diagrams with Yanis Bitsakis for the article of Michael Wright, "The Antikythera Mechanism: Compound Gear-Trains for Planetary Indications". Together with Mathias Buttet and Yanis Bitsakis, he is designing an underwater drone that will assist the archaeologists in the "Return to Antikythera" expedition.

Lorenz Baumer is professor of archaeology at the Geneva university. He curated the exhibition "L'énigme Anticythère - un calculateur astronomique dans l'Antiquité" together with Yanis Bitsakis. From 2021 to 2025, he co-directs the "Return to Antikythera" archaeological shipwreck project, together with Aggeliki Simossi.

Lazaros Kolonas (in Greek: Λάζαρος Κολώνας) is honorary Director of Antiquities at the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. He supervised the Cousteau expedition in 1976, and, as Director of Antiquities, visited the Museum in 2005 while the new research was ongoing.

Theotokis Theodoulou (in Greek, Θεοτόκης Θεοδούλου) is in charge of the new dive at the Antikythera wreck site (2012) from the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.

Albert Falco (1927-2012) was part of the Cousteau team and Captain of the Calypso.

Commander Cousteau, with his ship Calypso, surveyed the Antikythera wreck site in 1953 and then returned in 1976 for an archaeological expedition together with a team of Greek archaeologists and divers. Artefacts from the 1976 dive joined the previously discovered objects at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

Lefteris Tsavliris (in Greek: Λευτέρης Τσαβλίρης) participated to the Cousteau dive at the Antikythera Wreck, in 1976. Photos from his archives are being used in the "Antikythera" exhibitions.

At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in charge of the "Return to Antikythera" wreck survey (from 2012 to 2016), a project of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities initiated by Aggeliki Simossi.