Acknowledgements

· Lina Mendoni, Secretary general, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

· Ambassador Alexandros Rallis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (manager of D1 department)

· Anastasia Strati, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (D1), Athens, Greece

· Loukas Tsokos, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (D1), Athens, Greece

· Aggeliki Simosi, Ephorate of Marine Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

· Dimitris Kourkoumelis, Ephorate of Marine Antiquities, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

· Teti Hatzinikolaou, Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

· Yiannis N. Drinis, Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

· Dimitra Arvaniti, Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

· Panos Kammenos, former Deputy Minister of Mercantile Marine, the Aegean and Island Policy, Piraeus, Greece

· Katherine Tsatsaronis, Public Communication Office, Ministry of Mercantile Marine, the Aegean and Island Policy, Piraeus, Greece

· Pierre-Yves Kervennal, Ambassade de France en Grèce, Athens, Greece

· Nicholas Demenegas, Mayor of the Municipality of Kea, Cyclades, Greece

· Dr. George Papatheodorou, Assistant Professor at the University of Patras, Patras, Greece

· Constantine Karagounis, Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service, Athens, Greece

· Athanassios Kaoutskis, Central Harbor Lavrion, Hellenic Coast Guard, Attica, Greece

· Zisis Theocharis, Harbor Master, Island of Kea, Hellenic Coast Guard, Kea, Cyclades, Greece

· Nicholas Daskalakis, former Consular Harbor Master of Greece, Hamburg, Germany

· Εvangelia Sivri, Hellenic Consulate, Hamburg, Germany

· Dimitra Toubakari, Air Liquide Hellas Group, Athens, Greece

· George Marinopoulos, Paramina S.A.,  Air Compressors Manufacturers, Athens, Greece

· Dimitris Economidis, Econ Optics S.A., Athens, Greece

· Constantine Koronakis, D. Koronakis S.A., Piraeus, Greece

· Fivos Vilanakis,  Amateur Scuba Divers Club ‘TETHYS”, Athens, Greece

· Maria Salomidi, Environmentalist, Hellenic Center for Marine Research-HCMR, Anavyssos, Attica, Greece

· Gregory Belivanakis, Researcher of History, Milos, Cyclades, Greece

· Byron Tezapsidis,Researcher of History, Thessaloniki, Greece

· Theodor Dorgeist, Researcher of History – Germany

· Peter Christiansen, Internationales Maritimes Museum, Hamburg, Germany

· Carlo Marquardt, CM-Miniaturen, Hamburg, Germany

· Roger Haworth, Miramar Ship Index, New Zealand

· Simon Mills, The Britannic Foundation & Britannic S.A., United Kingdom

· Staff of the Carl von Ossietzky Library,  Hamburg, Germany

· Claudia Jew, The Mariners´ Museum, Newport News, Virginia, USA

· Andre Durand, France

· Rob Kamps, Maastricht, Holland

· Charles Haas, Titanic International Society, USA