Andreas Cariolou

The Kyrenia ship, the late fourth-century BC merchantman now displayed in Kyrenia Castle, was first found by a local man. Susan Katzev records that the mound of about eighty amphorae was "discovered ... by Andreas Cariolou in 1965"³. Matthew Harpster describes him as a local councilman in Kyrenia and an amateur diver, who found it in the summer of 1965, kept the find largely secret and told only a few people¹. George Bass, in his obituary of Michael Katzev, calls him a Cypriot sponge-diver².

In September 1967 Michael Katzev ran the Cyprus Underwater Archaeological Search with Susan Katzev, Jeremy Green and E. T. Hall, and had found no major site on the west and south-east coasts. According to Harpster, a member of the audience at Katzev's lecture in Nicosia arranged an introduction to Cariolou, who then took the team to the mound, about a mile offshore¹. Katzev excavated the wreck in 1968 and 1969, and the hull went on show in the castle from 1970¹.

His son Glafkos Cariolou captained the replica Kyrenia II from Piraeus to Paphos in 1986¹. The dates of Andreas Cariolou's birth and death are not recorded.