“About 2 degrees to starboard and slow down to 3 knots,” I said to Captain Steve Evert of Stockton College’s Marine field Station. We were surveying the Robert J. Walker shipwreck, using the latest in side scan sonar technology to remotely produce a picture of the wreck. Side scan sonar is a towed sonar which […]

Treasure does not always appear in the form of gold and silver coins. I prefer searching for historical treasures. Yeah sure I have found a silver-laden shipwreck for a client but more often than not searching for treasure results in pain. Financial pain. Emotional Pain. We read about the very few success stories such as […]

World War II left a litany of shipwrecks around the world. In the middle Atlantic region of the United States, these wrecks provided valuable hard structure habitat in a portion of the ocean dominated by sand bottoms and shorelines. The hard structure of a steel shipwreck is a haven for dozens of species and provides […]

Slowly the shape emerged from the dark water. A diamond-shaped bow jutting out from the glow. As I had decended some 110 feet below the calm lake waters, the clock spun backwards and now traveled back in time to 1757. For the wreck I was staring at looked exactly as she had over two hundred […]