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Ocean Gate Yacht Basin is a full service marina and boatyard that is located at the mouth of the Toms River. We are open all year around and our full service ship store and fuel dock are open seven days a week to conveniently serve our customers. Ocean Gate Yacht Basin was founded in 1958 by Kenneth & Marie Mease. Three generations of the Mease family together with our employees, continue to strive for personalized friendly service. Our knowledge continues to grow through continual education of both our employees and mechanics. Our 180 slips hold boats up to 45 ft and are available for winter and summer storage. The yacht basin has two 35 ton Travelifts for efficient hauling for boats of all sizes. For our customers with smaller boats, we have a fork lift for easy and convenient hauling and launching. Air conditioned restroom and shower facilities are also available for our customers. A boat ramp is located at the entrance of the marina for customers who store their boats on trailers …

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OceanGate suspends all exploration and commercial operations after Titan implosion

Five people were killed during an expedition to the Titanic wreckage.

OceanGate said it is suspending all exploration and commercial operations after five people were killed , including the company's CEO, during its expedition to the Titanic wreckage last month.

The Everett, Washington-based company announced the development in a banner on its websites.

OceanGate, founded in 2009, offered tourists the opportunity to travel on submersibles into the ocean's depths for a close-up look at shipwrecks and underwater canyons.

On June 18, its Titan submersible went missing while on a deep-sea voyage to the Titanic. The remnants of the missing OceanGate submersible, including the tail cone, were found on the ocean floor about 1,600 feet from the bow of the wrecked Titanic on June 22 by a remotely operated vehicle.

Debris recovered from the submersible contained "presumed human remains," the U.S. Coast Guard said last week.

The Marine Board of Investigation will be conducting "further analysis and testing" on the evidence, the Coast Guard said.

MORE: What to know about OceanGate, the company behind the missing Titanic submersible

"There is still a substantial amount of work to be done to understand the factors that led to the catastrophic loss of the TITAN and help ensure a similar tragedy does not occur again," Marine Board of Investigation Chair Capt. Jason Neubauer said in a statement on June 28.

The U.S. Coast Guard is leading an investigation into the deadly incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board, which said it will "contribute to their efforts."

Former National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tom Haueter called the probe "uncharted territory" that could take "months" to analyze the failures.

"This is the first fatality on a passenger carriage submarine I can think of and certainly the first one going into Titanic at this depth," Haueter told ABC News.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police also said last month that they are "examining the circumstances" of the deaths on board the Titan and will launch a full investigation if "the circumstances indicate criminal, federal or provincial laws may possibly have been broken."

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was among the five passengers killed on the experimental submersible, which has come under scrutiny for its carbon fiber construction and design . Stockton had previously defended the decision to manufacture the Titan with carbon fiber, saying he believed a sub made with carbon fiber would have a better strength-to-buoyancy ratio than titanium.

OceanGate had conducted over 14 expeditions and more than 200 dives across the Pacific, Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, according to the company's website. A seat on its submersible to see the Titanic wreckage cost $250,000 per passenger.

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OceanGate co-founder is planning a trip to one of the world's deepest ocean sinkholes

A year after the OceanGate submersible disaster, the company's co-founder is planning another excursion into the deep blue, this time into a "virtually unexplored" sinkhole.

Guillermo Söhnlein founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush — who died in the submersible implosion — in 2009, aiming to create submersibles to rent to researchers and tourists. He left the company in 2013, though he retained a minority stake, and founded Blue Marble Exploration.

Now tacking expedition leader to his title at the company, Söhnlein is piloting a trip to the Bahamas' Dean's Blue Hole, which his company calls an "enigma for geologists studying underwater caverns."

"Venturing into uncharted waters, our team will have to 'expect the unexpected,'" Blue Marble Exploration's website states.

Dean's Blue Hole is the third-deepest blue hole in the world, with a depth of 663 feet. It formed more than 15,000 years ago and is enclosed by three sides of "natural rock amphitheater" and a fourth side of turquoise lagoon and white beach, according to the Bahamas' official website .

Blue Marble Exploration says the blue hole's depth makes it "inaccessible to even the most experienced divers, and its remote location makes it incredibly difficult to launch major surface-based operations."

Though it's been explored in the past, this will be the first for a crewed submersible. And there will be some extra challenges.

The company says there may be openings in the walls of the chambers that connect the cavern to the Atlantic Ocean, potentially creating unpredictable currents and thermal layers that could interfere with operations. Plus, the floor of the blue hole will be in complete darkness and carrying a pressure of almost 300 pounds per square inch, nearly 20 times more than what's on the surface.

It's unclear what type of submersible that will be used in the expedition, but an ability to sustain that type of pressure and beyond will likely be one of the most necessary traits — particularly after the OceanGate incident.

That company's Titan submersible gained international attention when it went missing with five passengers while attempting to travel nearly 13,000 feet below sea level to visit the Titanic wreckage. Officials later confirmed the craft imploded due to a "catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber," instantly killing all people aboard and raising alarms about the safety of extreme tourism.

OceanGate has since suspended all exploration and commercial operations.

After the implosion, Söhnlein expressed that he hoped the memory of the five explorers could be kept alive through further deep-ocean exploration, which he says would be promoting what "they believed in and were passionate about," according to the Seattle Times .

"Those of us who work in the deep-ocean community know that there are risks. We know that working down there is difficult," he told the outlet. "And yet we all believe in what we're doing. We believe that what we're doing is greater than us. It's worth the risk, and it's our way of contributing to creating a brighter future for humanity and the planet.

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Titan sub passengers signed waivers covering death. Could their families still sue OceanGate?

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Updated on: June 27, 2023 / 12:13 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

As the operator of a tourist submersible designed to dive 4,000 meters below the sea's surface, OceanGate asked its customers to sign liability waivers before stepping inside the 21-foot vessel — paperwork that outlined their risks in stark terms, including the possibility of death, emotional trauma or physical injury. 

That waiver could play a critical role in whether the families of the passengers who died last week on an expedition to explore the  wreckage of the Titanic  have legal grounds to sue OceanGate, according to legal experts.

The company's liability waiver was highlighted by CBS News correspondent David Pogue, who traveled on the sub last year and who noted that the document alludes to the risk of death at least three times as well as to other dangers. The waiver also described the vessel itself, which highlights some of the issues with the sub that experts had warned about in the years prior to its doomed voyage.

"This operation will be conducted inside an experimental submersible vessel that has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and may be constructed of materials that have not been widely used in human-occupied submersibles," the waiver stated.

Passengers also waived the right to take action for "personal injury, property damage or any other loss" that they experienced on the trip, according to The Associated Press. 

Such waivers are common for recreational activities that carry risks, such as scuba diving or sky diving. Generally, these legal documents shield the company's owner of liability if their customers accept the risks and dangers related to the activity and are subsequently injured. 

The families and representatives of two of the passengers on the Titan —  British businessman Hamish Harding and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet — didn't immediately return requests for comment. OceanGate's CEO, Stockton Rush, was also on the vessel. The company declined to comment.

The family of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman, both of whom were passengers on the Titan, responded by noting they are "profoundly grateful to those from all over the world who have stood by us during our time of need, and would especially like to thank each and everyone who was directly involved in the extraordinary rescue efforts last week." 

International waters

Complicating the question of liability is that the incident occurred in international waters, noted Craig Goldenfarb, founder of law firm Goldlaw and an attorney who practices maritime and admiralty law. As a result, a section of OceanGate's waiver known as the "choice of law" provision becomes especially important, he noted.

"The choice of law provision gives jurisdiction to a country in case any litigation ensues from the contract,"  Goldenfarb said.  

The waiver reviewed by the AP found that any disputes would be governed by the laws of the Bahamas, where OceanGate is registered. The Bahamas, whose legal system is  based on English Common Law, is considered a business-friendly jurisdiction, but whether the families have grounds to sue may depend on its laws governing liability waivers. 

It's important to note that waivers in general aren't ironclad, Goldenfarb noted. For instance, if the waiver is signed by someone who can't understand the waiver due to a disability or other issue, such as a language gap, and then who is injured, their families may be able to sue because the victim wasn't properly informed of the risk.

Waivers can also be rejected by judges if there is evidence of gross negligence, attorneys noted. 

"You can waive liability standard for negligence but not gross negligence," said Patrick Luff, founding partner of Luff Law Firm and a former law school professor. "Gross negligence will vary, but it's generally something like, 'acting despite your knowledge of extreme risk'."

"Experimental submersible"

The OceanGate waiver's terms that outlined the risks of diving in the sub showed that the passengers had been informed, meaning that their families wouldn't be able to sue simply because the vessel was an "experimental submersible" or hadn't been certified by an industry group, some legal experts said.

"If that information had been hidden, then of course that would be actionable," noted John Uustal, founding partner of Kelley | Uustal Trial Attorneys, in an email to CBS MoneyWatch. "It seems to me this kind of verification of informed consent is entirely appropriate, and in general they are legally valid."

The section of the legal document that waived the passengers' right to take action for injury or loss could also "insulate the company from any responsibility for its own misconduct, even when egregious," Uustal noted.

Even so, Uustal said he would advise the passengers' families to closely review the waiver for issues that weren't covered or disclosed.

"I would suggest looking closely at the exact language of any release terms and see if there is any misconduct that was not covered," he said. "That may provide grounds for a lawsuit, if indeed there was such misconduct."

But as the investigation into the Titan's failure emerges, with a deep-sea robot searching this weekend for debris from the sub, additional legal issues could come to light as more is learned about how and why the vessel imploded, Goldenfarb said.

"If one of the component parts failed, then you would be suing the manufacturer of a component part instead of suing OceanGate," Goldenfarb said. "There may be areas of liability that nobody is aware of yet."

—With reporting by Irina Ivanova and The Associated Press.

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Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets including USA Today and Consumer Reports.

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Before Titan loss, OceanGate’s submersibles focused on science

OceanGate’s vessels were more than stewards for the ultra-rich, contributing for years to scientific expeditions and assisting academic institutions

When OceanGate’s submersible, known as Titan, imploded beneath the sea sometime last week, it took the lives of a billionaire and his son; two other wealthy passengers who each paid $250,000; and the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, as they attempted a voyage to view the remains of the Titanic.

But for years before the tragedy, OceanGate’s vessels were more than stewards for the ultrarich. They also contributed to scientific expeditions in the company’s native Pacific Northwest and assisted local academic institutions in trips that led to published research.

Joe Gaydos, science director for SeaDoc Society, a marine wildlife organization based in Friday Harbor, Wash., recalled Rush as an ocean lover and a professional who, along with his wife, Wendy, cared deeply about local research projects.

“In their hearts, they were scientists,” Gaydos told The Washington Post. “Stockton wanted to make a difference. … He wanted to do things that actually made the ocean better.”

OceanGate partnered with SeaDoc Society in 2018 for three projects to study a local species of sea urchin and its kelp-filled ecosystem. As part of that effort, OceanGate lent its Cyclops 1 vessel to researchers from the University of Washington, University of Oregon and University of California at Davis, and Rush piloted many of the dives.

Karly Cohen, who was a graduate student at the University of Washington when she went on one of the 2018 expeditions with Rush, called the trip “the defining moment of her career.” Rush also was part of a group that gave an educational presentation about the submersibles to local residents of Friday Harbor between dives, Cohen said.

For these projects, the company’s submersible traveled to depths of around 290 meters, significantly less deep than when it attempted to reach the Titanic wreck, at 3,800 meters deep.

“It was still quite a big operation with a lot of moving parts, and it was really well done. And it couldn’t have been done without the Cyclops,” Gaydos said. “These were the types of projects that people needed to see with their own eyes, not a remote device.”

The trip produced three studies published in ScienceDirect, a database of academic journals, according to documents reviewed by The Post.

Gary Greene, a marine geologist for Moss Landing Marine Labs, said Stockton and Wendy Rush would let him stay at their home in Seattle before and after expeditions. They wanted to use the Titan craft to help with Greene’s research on submarine canyons, he said.

“We would have long conversations about the ways that Titan and the other submersibles could be used for exploration,” Greene said. “Stockton was interested in the engineering, and Wendy was interested in the science.”

In 2014, OceanGate partnered with the Discovery Channel to film an educational episode about sixgill sharks in Seattle’s Elliott Bay, where the local rapper Macklemore went on a dive with Rush — a portion of which was posted to the company’s YouTube channel . OceanGate had also been partnered with the University of Washington’s physics lab around that time, according to another video on the channel.

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Along with scientific expeditions in the Pacific Northwest, OceanGate vessels were used in archaeological missions around North America, according to an archive of its website. In 2010, its submersible explored Catalina Island in California and filmed Cold War-era chambers and marine life. That same year, it partnered with BlueView Technologies to create a 3D model of a sunken 100-year-old steamboat in Canada’s Lake Laberge.

In an October 2022 interview with GeekWire, Rush said that OceanGate’s high-end tourism helped subsidize its deep-sea research, which wasn’t financially sustainable on its own. At the time of the Titan submersible’s final voyage, the company was offering spots on an expedition in New York’s Hudson Canyon to train oceanography researchers.

The scientific accomplishments of OceanGate have so far been overshadowed by the conditions surrounding its latest voyage. The Post has reported the company operated in a regulatory gray area, and that Rush may have purchased “discount” parts for the vessel’s construction.

Aaron Galloway, a professor at the University of Oregon who also did an expedition with Rush in 2018, recalls the Cyclops briefly losing communication on his 284-meter dive.

That lapse “was terrifying,” he said. “I don’t think I could ever go back in a vessel like that again, even one that was up to safety standards.”

“More than anything, I hope [OceanGate’s] carelessness on the Titanic expedition doesn’t set back the science community’s use of these kinds of submersibles,” he added.

In a previous version of this article, the last quote was changed from the original to clarify that Galloway meant to refer to the carelessness of OceanGate, not Rush. The article has been corrected

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Investigation continues one year after OceanGate submersible implosion

On June 18, 2023, a submersible on its way to the Titanic wreckage site went missing in the deep sea.

The disappearance of the submersible Titan, operated by Everett-based OceanGate and Seattle resident Stockton Rush , generated worldwide media attention as it was initially unknown whether the passengers could still be alive but trapped in the vessel thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. Rush and four passengers were killed when the submersible imploded in a remote area of the Atlantic Ocean.

One year after the disaster, U.S. Coast Guard says its investigation is active and will take longer to complete than investigators initially projected. OceanGate remains closed and no longer occupies the space in the Port of Everett where it once had its headquarters.

Interest in OceanGate hasn’t wavered — the company and Titan have been the subject of numerous documentaries and news exposes — nor has the focus on deep-sea exploration, despite what happened with the Titan.

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OceanGate was a company focused on manned submersibles and ocean exploration. Rush founded the company in 2009, and from the beginning its long-term target customers were those in the oil and gas sector and in national defense, co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein told The Seattle Times last year.

OceanGate created an expeditions subsidiary to spur demand — and tourists willing to pay up to $250,000 to be “mission specialists” on the dives. At the time of the disappearance, the company was valued at $60 million, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence records.

Soon after, OceanGate posted on its website that it had suspended all exploration and commercial operations; that update remains the only line on the OceanGate site.

The expedition and passengers

Five people were aboard the Titan submersible to view the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, which sunk after hitting a North Atlantic Ocean iceberg in 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew.

Rush, 61, lived in Seattle and had gone on dozens of dives on OceanGate vessels around the world. Hamish Harding, 58, was a British businessman and explorer who had gone to space on a Blue Origin flight and traveled to the South Pole with astronaut Buzz Aldrin.

Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Suleman, 19, were members of one of the most prominent business families in Pakistan. Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, was a French explorer known as “Mr. Titanic” for his ship expertise. His daughter told 60 Minutes Australia this month that she has yet to hear from anyone associated with OceanGate about her father’s death.

The investigation

The investigation into the Titan implosion is a complex and ongoing effort, the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation Chair Jason Neubauer said in a news release. Investigators originally projected the work would take 12 months but have since extended that timeline.

The Coast Guard recovered debris and human remains from the ocean floor and in November said it was reviewing evidence with investigation teams from Canada and France. The investigation requires extensive forensic testing, the Coast Guard said.

Investigators haven’t found any evidence that the Titan passengers were aware of the imminent implosion, Neubauer told The New York Times this month . A viral transcript that reportedly detailed the Titan’s last moments in communication with its mothership, the Canadian research vessel Polar Prince, was found to be fake.

Oceangate’s safety record — and the future of deep-sea exploration

The Titan submersible was uncertified, and after the implosion, attention turned toward OceanGate’s and Rush’s safety record. Sohnlein, OceanGate’s co-founder, described Rush as “risk averse” and defended Rush’s views on safety. But others disagreed , including a group of industry experts who in a 2018 letter urged Rush to put his vessels through a voluntary certification process.  

The incident with Titan appears to have failed to quell other uncertified submersibles. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada said this week it had identified many submersibles with people aboard that operated within Canadian waters before and after June 2023.

The ultrawealthy continue to express interest in the deep sea, The Wall Street Journal reported . One billionaire, an Ohio real estate investor, plans to embark on a dive to the Titanic shipwreck in a $20 million vessel.

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The co-founder and former CEO of OceanGate, the deep sea exploration company whose submersible notoriously imploded on a dive to the Titanic wreck last year, is heading back to the bottom of the ocean to study a “virtually unexplored” sinkhole.

Guillermo Söhnlein founded OceanGate in 2009 with Stockton Rush — who was one of the five killed during last June’s doomed dive — but left and started another deep-sea company, Blue Marble Exploration.

This year, Söhnlein plans to descend in a submersible on a danger-filled expedition into “Dean’s Blue Hole” in the Bahamas — one of the world’s deepest ocean sinkholes. 

He will be joined by scientist Kenny Broad and chief medical officer and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski on the journey “in search of unprecedented findings.”

“To date, Dean’s Blue Hole has been virtually unexplored,” the company said on its website . “Venturing into uncharted waters, our team will have to ‘expect the unexpected.'”

Dean’s Blue Hole is a deep blue, 664-foot underwater cavern surrounded by a gorgeous beach on a remote Bahaman island, according to Blue Marble. It formed some 15,000 years ago and, due to its extreme depth, very little is known about it.

The sinkhole, the third deepest in the world, has a “vase” shape with a narrow opening near the surface that leads to a much wider chamber below.

Some scientists believe there may be openings in the chamber connecting Dean’s Blue Hole to the Atlantic Ocean, which can potentially “cause unforeseen currents and thermal layers that could interfere with underwater operations,” according to the company.

“There is a certain amount of unpredictability our team will face in new territory.”

One of the biggest challenges will be the pressure at the floor of the hole which will be almost 300 pounds per square inch — about 20 times more than what’s on the surface. 

Due to the narrow opening, most of the hole is in complete darkness.

Locals believe that Dean’s Blue Hole is a portal to hell. Several people drown there each year.

“We fully expect to find human remains and prepare to handle those situations with proper respect for the families,” the company said.

It’s not clear when exactly Söhnlein and his team plan to depart.

The Post has reached out to Blue Marble Exploration for comment about the expedition.

The 663-foot dive into the hole is far shallower than the wreckage of the Titanic, which is more than 12,500 below the surface of the North Atlantic.

On June 18, 2023, OceanGate’s Titan submersible set out with five passengers aboard : Rush, 61, French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, and tourists Hamish Harding, 58, businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son, Suleman Dawood, 19.

The passengers had paid up to $250,000 each to be on board the 21-foot craft, which lost communication with its surface ship around one hour and 45 minutes into the journey, shortly before it reached the wreck.

After nearly five days of searching, the US Coast Guard announced debris “consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel” had been found on the ocean floor not far from the 1912 ocean liner.

All of those on board were crushed to death under the immense pressure in less than a second.

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No, OceanGate did not announce plans to send 1,000 people to Venus by 2050 | Fact check

The claim: OceanGate announced plans to send 1,000 people to Venus by 2050

An Aug. 1 Facebook post ( direct link , archive link ) claims the company behind a recent maritime catastrophe is gearing up for a new expedition to another planet.

"Exactly a month ago, a submersible called Titan manufactured by Oceangate imploded taking lives of five billionaires including Pakistani father-son duo Shahzada and Suleman Dawood and now the company has announced to build a colony on Venus expressing plans to send 1,000 people to the planet by 2050,” reads part of the post.

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OceanGate Expeditions has suspended all explorations and business operations in light of its fatal expedition to the Titanic wreckage site in June. An OceanGate co-founder who left the company in 2013 has said he wants to explore sending a floating colony to the planet with a separate venture, Humans2Venus.

Söhnlein defends OceanGate, exploring Venus expedition through separate venture

OceanGate’s Titan submersible lost contact with its mothership about 90 minutes after launching toward the ocean floor to explore the Titanic wreckage on June 18. Search crews found pieces of the vessel in a debris field on the ocean floor days later. All five passengers on board, including OceanGate CEO and co-founder Stockton Rush, were announced dead . 

OceanGate’s website says the company has “suspended all exploration and commercial operations.” 

The month after the implosion, Guillermo Söhnlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Rush in 2009, told Business Insider he plans to send 1,000 people to live in Venus’ atmosphere by 2050 through his venture Humans2Venus. 

“It is aspirational, but I think it’s also very doable by 2050,” Söhnlein told the outlet.

Humans2Venus’ website describes itself as a nonprofit organization “dedicated to promoting Venus as a potential long-term destination for humanity.” 

Fact check : Viral images are AI, not wreckage of submersible bound for Titanic

Söhnlein, who left OceanGate a decade ago , defended his former company as it received heavy criticism about lax safety practices in the midst of the Titan search, and later said the ill-fated expedition should not prevent further human innovation. 

Surface temperatures on Venus are about 900 degrees – hot enough to melt lead, according to NASA . And air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, as crushing as you would find a mile below the ocean.

Söhnlein told Business Insider that research suggests humans could survive 30 miles from Venus' surface, where temperatures and air pressure are lower.

The post also references the men who died as being "five billionaires." That is inaccurate, based on reporting from USA TODAY and others, which identified only one passenger with that description, Hamish Harding.

USA TODAY previously debunked false claims the Titan submersible was found without passengers inside, that one of its occupants was vice chairman of the World Economic Forum, and an implication that OceanGate posted a job opening for a submersible pilot after the vessel went missing. 

USA TODAY reached out to the user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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Savvino-storozhevsky monastery and museum.

Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

Belfry and Neighbouring Churches

Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

Tsaritsa's Chambers

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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