“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 […]

Summer, 2014 This past summer, Vince Capone of Black Laser Learning lead a group of summer interns on how to operate side scan sonar technology during a mapping project on the famous RJ Walker shipwreck. The students learned the art of advanced sonar image interpretation on the 1860 wreck, an iron-hulled, steam-powered U.S. Coastal Survey ship that had collided with…