This aerial photo taken on Jan. 2, 2018, in Mobile County, Alabama, shows the remains of a ship that could be the Clotilda, the last slave ship documented to have delivered captive Africans to [...]
The Hunley in preservation tank. Credit: Friends of the Hunley Researchers say they’ve solved one of the most enduring mysteries of the American Civil War: what caused the puzzling demise of the H.L. Hunley, [...]
Cartographers are still putting the finishing touches on the new map, which will appear in the visitors’ center at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. MAP COURTESY SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK [...]
The quest to learn about the past continues in a new role After a seven-year long tenure at NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries as Director of Maritime Heritage, in Maryland, Jim has taken up a position [...]
After a 7-year search, a missing German U-boat is lost no longer From the website of The Washington Post by Michael E. Ruane August 31, 2016 The sonar “target” first appears as a green and yellow [...]
Video: Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist, Courtesy Ocean Today - NOAA Jim gives a quick overview of maritime archaeology, the connection we have with ships and the sea, and the importance of preserving [...]
The SS Dorothy Wintermotes engine skylight. Ocean Exploration Trust - NOAA Media releases news about the Dorothy Wintermote shipwreck Jim, Dr. Robert Ballard and others have been surveying aboard Nautilus off the California [...]
A timber loading structure in the Fort Ross Cove in an 1880 photo. (Kent Porter/Press Democrat) Divers search Sonoma Coast for shipwrecks from historic harbors From the website of The Press Democrat August [...]
Built in 1920, the Coast Trader is pictured in San Francisco in 1937; it became the second merchant ship to be sunk off the continental coast when a Japanese submarine, I-26, torpedoed it between [...]
The officers and crew of USS Conestoga, in San Diego, California in 1921. Lost for 95 years, the tug was discovered in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary off San Francisco. Credit: Naval Historical [...]
