In 1982, Dimitrios Mavrikis, Kostas' father, discovered a shipwreck on the island of Peristera , consisting of a significant accumulation of mainly intact amphoras, which formed a low hill, 25 metres long and 12 metres wide. The discovery was considered highly important as it changed the prevailing view on the size of classical merchant ships and revealed the construction of vessels of a much larger capacity. The shipwreck was declared to the Greek Ephorate of Maritime Antiquities, which proved to be rather bureaucratic than an operative agency. As a result, the shipwreck's showcase never proceeded. Despite repeated publicity by Dimitrios and Kostas Mavrikis, the wreck was sidelined and left to its own devices. In 1997, a book by K. Mavrikis entitled "Áno Magníton Nísi" (Islands of the Magnetes) was published to remind the existence of the shipwreck. In 2006, Angelos Maglis, read the book and decided to promote the wreck through the EU project BlueMed . The Peristera...
