Great Museum of the Sea – Online Lecture
Date: July 29, 2025 Time: 6:45-8:00 ET Jim will be giving an online Zoom lecture based on his new book The Great Museum of the Sea for Smithsonian Associates. Register here.
Great Museum of the Sea – CBS Mornings
Jim was featured on CBS Mornings, July 4, 2025, talking about his new book The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks
Great Museum of the Sea – WSJ review
Jim's new book The Great Museum of the Sea: A Human History of Shipwrecks was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal.
Jim talks to the US Naval Institute on USS Yorktown
Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer images the wreck of USS Yorktown during a dive on April 19 as part of the Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition. NOAA Photo The aircraft carrier USS Yorktown [...]
Jim takes part in USS Yorktown mapping
Photogrammetric model of the island of USS Yorktown, created by Raymond Phipps, NOAA Ocean Exploration explorer-in-training, March 30, 2024. The island is one of the areas of the ship targeted for exploration during the [...]
Jim featured on new shipwrecks podcast
Jim is featured on the new Fascinated by Shipwrecks podcast that aired on Sunday, November 3. The podcast is dedicated to sharing stories about the people and the science of maritime archaeology. In this inaugural [...]
USS Stewart Found off Coast of California
Multi-bean sonar image of the US Navy destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) Jim and his colleagues at SEARCH Inc., as well as several key agencies, have found the century-old US Navy destroyer. This groundbreaking [...]
Jim takes part in 19th-Century Shipwreck Exploration in Florida
Crews painstakingly removed mud layer by layer to expose the vessel. Florida Department of Transportation, District Two (Smithsonian Magazine) SEARCH Inc. on the job exploring the fascinating 19th century wooden sailing ship find. [...]
Was it Murder? Jim writes about the Navy’s Somers Affair
Was it murder? Why a US Navy hanging resonates nearly 200 years later One hundred and eighty years ago, Captain Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, in command of the United States Navy’s brig Somers, hanged three of [...]
Jim is interviewed on the Historically Thinking podcast
Titled Mutiny, this podcast episode delves into perhaps the greatest scandal and sea-story of the first half of 19th Century America that nearly everyone has forgotten. You can also check out Jim's book on the [...]