Adventures of a Sea Hunter (33 page)

Belcher, George. “The U.S. Brig
Somers:
A Shipwreck from the Mexican War,”
Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference, Reno, Nevada.
Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society for Historical Archaeology, 1988.

Delgado, James P. “No Longer a Buoyant Ship: Unearthing the Gold Rush Store ship
Niantic,” California History
63:4 (winter 1979).

———. “What Becomes of the Old Ships? Dismantling the Gold Rush Fleet of San Francisco,”
The Pacific Historian
25:4 (winter 1981).

———. “A Gold Rush Enterprise: Samuel Ward, Charles Mersch, Adolphe Maillard and the
Niantic
Store ship,”
The Huntington Library Quarterly
44:4 (autumn 1983).

———. “Skeleton in the Sand: Documentation of the Environmentally Exposed 1856 Ship
King Philip
,” in
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Historical Archaeology
, ed. by Paul F. Johnston. Ann Arbor: Society for Historical Archaeology, 1985.

———. “Documentation and Identification of the Two-Masted Schooner
Neptune,” Historical Archaeology
20:1 (1986).

———. “Documenting the Sunken Remains of
USS
Saratoga
,” United States Naval Institute
Proceedings
116:10 (October 1990).

———. “Recovering the Past of
USS
Arizona;
Symbolism, Myth, and Reality,”
Historical Archaeology
26:4 (1992).

———. “Operation Crossroads,”
American History Illustrated
28:3 (May/June 1993).

———. “Rediscovering the
Somers
,”
Naval History
8:2 (March/April 1994).

———. “The Brig
Isabella:
A Hudson’s Bay Company Shipwreck of 1830,”
The American Neptune
55:4 (fall 1995).

———. “The Lure of the Deep,” Archeology 49:3 (May/June 1996).

———. “Bombshell at Bikini,”
Naval History
10:4 (July/August 1996).

———. “The Bermuda Brig
William and Ann:
Fur Trading Pioneer on the Northwest Coast of America,”
Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History
VIII
(1996).

———. “Arctic Ghost,”
Equinox
, May 1997.

———. “Wreck Site of the U.S. Brig
Somers
,” in Mensun Bound, ed.
Excavating of Ships of War.
Ostwestry Shropshire, International Maritime Archaeology Series, Anthony Nelson, 1998.

———. “Underwater Archaeology at the Dawn of the 21st Century.”
Historical Archaeology
34:4 (2000).

———. “Galvanic Ghosts,”
Naval History
14:1 (February 2000).

———. “Diving on the
Titanic,” Archaeology
54:1 (January/February 2001).

———. “The Gold-Rush Store Ship
Niantic
,”
Maritime Life & Traditions
13 (spring 2002).

———. “Relics of the Kamikaze,”
Archaeology
54:1 (January/February 2003).

Eliot, John E. “Bikini’s Nuclear Graveyard,”
National Geographic
, June 1992.

Erskine, Angus B., and Kjell-G. Kjaer. “The Arctic Ship
Fox
,”
Polar Record
33, 185 (1997).

Keenleyside, Anne, Margaret Bertulli and Henry C. Fricke. “The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence,”
Arctic
50:1 (March 1997).

Lenihan, Daniel J. “The
Arizona
Revisited,”
Natural History Magazine
100:11 (November 1991).

———. “Bikini Beneath the Waves,”
American History Illustrated
28:3 (May/June 1993)

Murphy, Larry. “Preservation at Pearl Harbor,”
APT Bulletin
9:1 (1987).

Nordby, Larry V. “Modeling
Isabella:
Behavioral Linkages Between Submerged and Terrestrial Sites” in James P. Delgado, ed.,
Underwater Archaeology Proceedings from the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Reno, Nevada: Society for Historical Archaeology, 1988.

Pastron, Allen G., and James P. Delgado. “Archaeological Investigations of a Mid-19th Century Shipbreaking Yard, San Francisco, California,”
Historical Archaeology
25:1 (1991).

Solnit, Rebecca. “The Rifts That Unite Us,” San Francisco
Chronicle
, September 8, 2002.

My dad taught me about life and how to value people for who they are, not what they are.

Lynn Vermillion, the librarian at the California History Room at the San Jose Public Library, showed me the way to books and files from the first afternoon I asked my father to drop me off at the downtown library.

Constance “Connie” Perham, founder and curator of the New Almaden Museum, took me in as a fifty-cent-per-hour assistant at age fourteen and taught me that collecting the past meant nothing unless you could share it with others and make it relevant and exciting for them.

Ted Hinckley convinced my parents to send their precocious child not to the local community college but to university.

Tom Mulhern and Gordon Chappell of the Western Regional Office of the National Park Service, with help from Roger Kelly and Robert Cox, taught me about nominating historical resources to the National Register of Historic Places and about cultural resources management.

Allen Pastron let me join his crew at the bottom of a deep pit that had just reached the top of the hull of
William Gray.
That dig in 1979 lured me with the siren song of the sea, and the drama of a lost and buried ship now fills my archeologist’s soul. My work with Allen continues and remains my touchstone.

Doug Nadeau, Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s first chief of the Division of Resource Management and Planning, was the best boss that I’ve ever had the privilege to work for.

No-nonsense master diver Lawrence “Dutch” Bowen often said while training me, “There are bold divers, and there are old divers. There are no old bold divers.” Through the years, whenever I make some mistake underwater and nearly kill myself, Dutch’s basic training comes back to mind to save the day.

Dan Lenihan and Larry Murphy of the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center Unit taught me how to dive wrecks and how to “do” underwater archeology. Their philosophical discussions over the role of anthropology in underwater and maritime archeology, as well as a strong preservationist approach to saving wrecks from the ravages of treasure hunters, also formed a solid core in my education.

William N. “Bill” Still and Gordon P. Watts, the founders of the Program in Maritime History and Underwater Research at East Carolina University.

Dave Burley, Chairman of the Department of Archeology at Simon Eraser University, picked up where Still and Watts left off to show me what else I lacked in the quest to finish school and get that Ph.D.

George Belcher introduced me to the infamous
Somers
, and later the beauty and history of Vietnam and its people. He exemplifies the concept of cool as an international man of mystery.

Edwin C. “Ed” Bearss, Chief Historian of the National Park Service, assigned me to be Project Historian on the
USS
Monitor
and then hired me to head up the federal maritime preservation program as the first maritime historian for the National Park Service.

Val Casselton and Chris Rose, my editors at the
Vancouver Sun
, encourage and support my journalistic forays.

Tom Beasley and his successors as President of the Board of the Vancouver Maritime Museum took the risk in hiring a non-museum-trained bureaucrat. Through the years, they’ve helped me move along the path of museum manager and interpreter while giving me latitude to continue being an archeologist and sea hunter.

Werner Zehnder, Mike McDowell, Scott Fitzsimmons, Anatoly Sagalevitch and Evgeny Chernaiev introduced me to
Titanic.
Thanks to Werner and Scott, other great world adventures followed aboard Zegrahm’s vessels.

Monte Markham taught me how to act on television.

John Davis, Clive Cussler, Mike Fletcher, Warren Fletcher, Marc Pike and John Rosborough, are my
Sea Hunters
family: we’ve shared many adventures and learned much in our quest for famous shipwrecks.

I’d also like to thank Jim Adams, Catherine “Kitty” Agegian, Christian Ahlstro m, David Aiken, the late Raymond Aker, Mike Anderson, Michele Aubry, Fabio Amaral, Santiago Anako, Marianne Babal, Dan Bailey, Ken Ballance, Robert D. Ballard, Carole Bartholemeaux, George Bass, the late Edward L. Beach, Judith Hudson Beattie, Owen Beattie, Lan Huang Belcher, Robert Bennett, Howard Bennink, Carlos Fitzgerald Bernal, J. Peter Bernhardt, Kathy Bequette, Nancy Binnie, Kathy Blackburn, Len Blix, Lisa Bower, Rowland T. Bowers, John Brooks, Greg Brown, John “Alan” Brown, Dave Buller, the late Charles Burdick, Burl Burlingame, Susan Buss, Stephen Canright, Nuna Cass, Bill Caswell, Robert J. Chandler, Patrick Christopher, J. Candace Clifford, Wendy Coble, Bob Cox, Todd Croteau, George Culley, Bill Curtsinger, Fran Day, Nick Dean, Nick Del Cioppo, Hugo Desch, Doug Devine, Bill Dudley, Manuel Cortes Dumas, Rob Edwards, Bill Ehorn, John Eliot, Pilar Luna Erregueren a, Angus Erskine, Richard Everett, Joe Featherston, Franklin Fisher, Leo Fonteyn, John Foster, Kevin Foster, Tom and Ann Freeman, Julie Gallo Lucero, Frank Geisel, Al Giddings, Richard Giles, Larry Gilmore, Gary Goodyear, Andrew Gottsfield, Dick Gould, Bente Jessen Graae, Rachel Grant, Lloyd Graybar, Bob Guertin, Stephen A. Haller, David Hansen, Rich Harned, Edward C. Harris, Thomas L. Hartman, Gene Hattori, Kevin Hay, Kenzo Hayashida, Bob Henderson, Gregg Herken, Torsten Hess, Kent Hiner, Eric Hiner, David Hull, Jack Hunter, Gillian Hutchinson, Steve James, Rick James, Kane Janer, Joy Waldron Jasper, Manami Ikeda, Bill Jardine, Roger Joel, Thompson Johnson, Carolyn Jones, Samuel Kahan, Gary Keep, Chester and Linda King, Kjell Kjaer, Greta Kleiner, Roger Knight, Minna Koivikko, Willi Kramer, John
Lachelt, Rebecca Lafontaine, Matias Laitenen, John Lajuan, Fernando Landeta, George Lang, Diego M. Lascano, Richard Lawrence, Thomas N. Layton, David C. Lee, Ben Levy, Santos H. Gomez Leyva, Bill Livingston, Jerry Livingston, Dave McCampbell, Michael McCaughan, Susan MacDonald, John Macdougall & family, Lee McEachern, Leonard McKay, Edward Maddison, Rebecca Magallanes, Jacques Marc, Mitch Marken, Mike Mair, Betty Marshall, Daniel Martinez, Guy Mathias, Cathy Maurer, Martin Mayer, Roger Meade, Tomas Mendizibal, Roy Mengot, Mike Messick, Bebe Midgette, Robert Mikesh, Mark Miller, Norman Y. Mineta, Mike Montieth, Greg Moore, Armando Morales, Elsy Yamina Zaldívar Morales, Torao Mozai, Ginger Muldoon, Larry E. Murphy, Mike Naab, Harry Nashon, Juan Enrique Suarez Peredo Navarette, Dave Nettell, Mark Newton, Johanna Nicholson, Jack Niedenthal, Tomoko Nishizaki, Larry Nordby, Stephen Notarianni, Mitsuhiko Ogawa, Brian O’Neill, Wayne Olival, Jerry Ostermiller, Lt. Commander Alejandro Pen a, the late Ernest Peterkin, Maurice De La Pintiere, Linda Plauner, Peggy Puett, Margaret Purser, Yvonne Munro Pynisky & family, Bill Quinn, Mark Ragan, Fred Rainbow, Dave Rattay, Jeanne Rawlings, Monica Reed, John Reilly, Gil Resindez, Wilma Riklon, Juan Rique, Ash Roach, Rhonda Robichaud, Bill Robison, Omar Lopez Rodriguez, Phil Sceviour, Fred Schultz, the late Doug Scovill, Tamio Shibuta, Linda Shore, Robert Schwemmer, Clyde Smith, Leon Smith, Sheli O. Smith, Richard Stephenson, David Stick, David Stone, Robert Sumrall, Woodrow Swancutt, Hideyuki Tatsuguchi, the late Peter Throckmorton, Brian Ticehurst, Saalamaria Tikkanen, Harald Tresp, Joe Valencic, Carlos Velasquez, John Vandereedt, Alberto M. Vazquez de la Cerda, Christopher C. Wade, Jens-Christian Wagner, Mike Walker, Gary Ware, Jonathan Weisgall, William J. Whalen, James Seeley White, Mark Wilde-Ramsing, Rich Wills, Robert Woody, Wayne Yamaguchi.

I’d also like to acknowledge the following institutions and agencies: Archeo-Tec; Archives of the Russian Federation, Moscow; Armada de Chile;
USS
Arizona
Memorial; Armada de Mexico; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; Bermuda Maritime Museum, Hamilton; Blohm + Voss Gmbh; British Museum, London; British Titanic Society;
Bundesarchiv Koblenz; California Historical Society; California Room, San Jose Public Library; Cape Cod National Seashore; Cape Hatteras National Seashore; Castillo del Morro San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba; Central Military Archives, Poland; Channel Islands National Park; Columbia River Maritime Museum, Astoria, Oregon; Danish Arctic Station; Danish National Business Archives; Dansk Polarcenter; Deutsches Museum; KZ Dora-Mittelbau Museum; Eco Nova Productions, Ltd., Halifax; Fort Vancouver National Historical Site, Vancouver, Washington; German Naval Academy, Murwik; Glenbow Archives; Golden Gate National Recreational Area; Hakozaki Shrine, Fukuoka, Japan; Historical Archives of Hapag-Lloyd Ag., Hamburg, Germany; Honbutsuji Temple; Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, Provincial Archives of Manitoba;
Illustrated London News;
Institute) Nacional de Antropologia y Historia, Mexico City; Institute Nacional de Cultura, Panama; J. Porter Shaw Library, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park; Knickle’s Studio And Gallery, Lunenburg; Korean Heritage Library; Specialized Libraries & Archival Collections of the Archival Research Center; Kyushu Okinawa Society for Underwater Archeology; Library of Congress; Marine Base Kunitomi; Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax; Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria; Maritime Museum of Finland; Mariner’s Museum, Newport News, Virginia; Municipality of Juan Fernandez; Museum of Northern History; National Archives, Washington D.C.; National Archives of Canada; National Library of Canada; National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; National Museum of Greenland; National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside (Merseyside Maritime Museum); Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.; New Hampshire Historical Society; Norsk Sjofartsmuseum, Oslo, Norway; Oficina del Conservador de la Ciudad, Santiago de Cuba; Oficina de la Historiador de Santiago, Santiago, Cuba; Peabody Essex Museum; Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum; Peenemünde Historical Technical Information Center; Perpetual Motion Films; Peter Tamm Collection; Private Collection Bornemann; Private Collection Schmalz; Public Archives of Nova Scotia, Macaskill Collection; Qeqertarsuaq Museum; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Archives; Royal
Naval Museum; Royal Navy Submarine Museum Photography Archive; Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon; Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge; Shipwreck Search Vessel
Ocean Venture;
Southampton City Cultural Services; Takashima Town Board of Education;
TV
Latina, Havana, Cuba; Titanic Historical Society; Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Underwater Archeological Society of British Columbia; U.S. Coast Guard; National Motor Lifeboat School, Cape Disappointment, Washington; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; U.S. Naval Institute; University of Liverpool Library; University of Southern California; W.B. and M.H. Chung Library of the Vancouver Maritime Museum; War in the Pacific National Historical Park; Wells Fargo Bank History Department, San Francisco; Wilmington Institute Library; Zegrahm Expeditions.