USS Independence Survey
Here, the bow of the USS Independence seen during the robot sub survey in August 2016. Credit: OET/Nautilus Live From the website of LiveScience by Charles Q. Choi August 23, 2016 1st Look at [...]
(Videos) Adventures of a Maritime Archaeologist
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 [...]
Video of shipwreck near Point Arena yields ‘twisted garden of steel’
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 [...]
Watch live satellite feed of Nautilus wreck expedition
Features on an historic photo of USS Independence CVL 22 are captured in a three-dimensional (3D) low-resolution sonar image of the shipwreck in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The Coda Octopus Echoscope 3D sonar, [...]
(VIDEO) Jim talks to the Explorers Institute
Jim talks with the Explorers Institute while in San Francisco. Watch Jim's "fireside chat" with the Explorers Institute in San Francisco. (Note: there are intermittent audio difficulties) Check out more Explorers Institute videos [...]
A Brief History of Voyages Through the Northwest Passage
The Gjoa ship, which Roald Amundsen (1872-1928) used to sail through and open the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific, arriving in Nome (Alaska) August 30, 1906 (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) [...]
Shipwreck search on Sonoma Coast
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 [...]
Dogholes and Shipwrecks Lecture, San Francisco, Aug 11
Dogholes and Shipwrecks, History and Archaeology of the Redwood Coast Free Lecture/Slide Show -- 6:00 p.m. Thursday, August 11 San Francisco Maritime N.H.P. Research Center Fort Mason Center (Lower Fort Mason,) Building E, 3rd Floor [...]
Overseeing Coast Trader Dive via Satellite
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 [...]
USS Conestoga
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 [...]