Alligator Jr. Civil War Submarine, Search Team I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a good New Year. First, a huge thanks to the entire team for their continued support, especially the local members who made the GPR technology work possible last winter. Appreciation to the University of Delaware team, who came north with all their equipment and advanced data processing capabilities, for their help last year. While we did not conclusively determ

On Saturday, February 22, a team from The Explorers Club, supported by a local team of history enthusiasts, chased Alice Smith’s dream of finding the prototype (Alligator Jr) of America’s first submarine, the Alligator. Carrying EC Flag 71, the team descended into the frozen marsh to identify a sizeable magnetic anomaly with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) […]