TEDxYerevan - Karen Balayan - Cilicia. The Aftermath October 19, 2011
Karen Balayan has been the head of the AYAS Nautical Research club in Yerevan since 1985. Balayan is a Master of Sports in fencing and an honored coach of the Republic of Armenia in sailing. He has also received a first degree medal for service to Armenia and an Admiral Isakov medal. Balayan was heavily involved as a leader, captain and project head of building a 13th century Armenian sailing ship replica, named the Cilicia, which he tested and tuned, and conducted a two-year seven-seas navigation around Europe.
He currently heads a project on reconstructing traditional boats in Lake Sevan and completed an underwater research expedition there last year in as part of a French-Armenian cooperation.
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