Two Century Old Shipwrecked Whaling Ship Discovered in GOM
the seafloor on February 25, 2022, at a suspected location first spotted by an energy company in 2011 and viewed briefly by an autonomous vehicle in 2017, but never fully examined. Armed with extensive research on Industry and the video from the ROV, the team of shoreside scientists led by James Delgado, Ph.D., senior vice president of SEARCH Inc.; Scott Sorset, marine archeologist for the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM); and Michael Brennan, Ph.D., also of SEARCH Inc., have now confirmed that the wreck is most likely the brig Industry.The whaling brig was built in 1815 in Westport
Treasures of the Deep
.” JW Fishers has also been featured on “Rob Riggle Global Investigators” and on “The Curse of Oak Islands” Series multiple times.(Photo courtesy JW Fishers)An estimate of the value of sunken treasure in the world begins with a guess at the number of sunken ships. In 2012 James Delgado, then director of the Maritime Heritage Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), estimated that there are a million shipwrecks underwater. "Given everything that's charted and all the rest, I would say that the majority of them remain undiscovered,"
USS Nevada Shipwreck Located
. Unable to be sunk by the ships using her as a target, she finally went down having been hit by an aerial torpedo on July 31, 1948.USS Nevada (BB-36) underway off the Atlantic coast of the United States, September 17, 1944. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Naval History and Heritage Command) Dr. James Delgado, SEARCH's Senior Vice President and lead maritime archaeologist on the mission, said, "Nevada is an iconic ship that speaks to American resilience and stubbornness. Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells and two atomic blasts
View from the Top: Dr. James Delgado, NOAA Director of Maritime Heritage
revealed to worldwide media that the wreck had finally been found – almost by accident – in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary in California. The announcement was made after several family members of the captain and crew had been personally notified – a job Dr. James Delgado, NOAA’s director of maritime heritage and his colleagues, take very seriously. Just a week earlier, arriving at the house of a woman whose grandfather had perished in the tragedy, Delgado prepared himself. He knew the meeting would be very emotional on both sides. As he
Remains of Lost 1800s Whaling Fleet Found
provides an opportunity to write the last chapter of this important story of American maritime heritage and also bear witness to some of the impacts of a warming climate on the region’s environmental and cultural landscape, including diminishing sea ice and melting permafrost.” James Delgado, maritime heritage director for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, said he believes the wrecks were pressed against a submerged sand bar that rests about 100 yards from shore. Working from first-hand accounts of the loss of the fleet, he said the ice opened the hulls to the sea
'Amazingly Intact' WWII-era Aircraft Carrier Surveyed
focus of the Navy's studies on decontamination until age and the possibility of its sinking led the Navy to tow the blast-damaged carrier to sea for scuttling on Jan. 26, 1951. "After 64 years on the seafloor, Independence sits on the bottom as if ready to launch its planes," said James Delgado, chief scientist on the Independence mission and maritime heritage director for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. "This ship fought a long, hard war in the Pacific and after the war was subjected to two atomic blasts that ripped through the ship. It is a reminder of the industrial
Images of Historic San Francisco Wreck Revealed
Recreation Area. "We are undertaking this exploration of the San Francisco Bay in part to learn more about its maritime heritage as well as to test recent advances in technology that will allow us to better protect and understand the rich stories found beneath the Bay's waters," said James Delgado, director of maritime heritage for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. To date NOAA has plotted nine of nearly 200 ships including four never before found vessels. In November, Hibbard Inshore and Bay Marine Services donated a research vessel and crew, along with a high-powered remotely
First Images of Historic San Francisco Shipwreck
. “This exploration of the San Francisco Bay is about our overall efforts to learn about the area’s important marine heritage, as well as to test recent advances in technology that will allow us to better protect and understand the rich stories found beneath the Bay's waters,” said James Delgado, director of maritime heritage for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. NOAA has so far plotted nine of nearly 200 ships including four never before found vessels. California-based salvagers found the wreck in the 1980s, but its exact location was unknown as the coordinates they
19th Century Shipwreck Found off Golden Gate Bridge
forgotten. “Discoveries like this remind us that the waters off our shores are museums that speak to powerful events, in this case not only that tragic wreck, but to a time when racism and anger were set aside by the heroism of a crew who acted in the best traditions of the sea,” said James Delgado, director of maritime heritage for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, whose past work has included documenting historic wrecks in California. In May 2013, NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey Navigational Response Team 6 (NRT6), in a 28-foot boat equipped with sonar, rediscovered
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