American Shipwrecks

On February 15th, 1898, at about 9:40 in the night, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. It killed between 260 and 268 men, and it caused a major uproar or attention in the United States. Because it was only a few days after the public found out about the De Lome letter, many Americans, and newspapers especially, put the blame onto Spain. It would soon become a minor cause of the Spanish-American War. During the war, the chant “Remember the Maine!” was used because of this tragedy.

While images of Port Royal and the Spanish Main fill most people’s imagination when they hear the word pirate, the truth is not all privateers were sailing around the Caribbean looking to capture gold bound for Cadiz. The British government imposed a huge tariff on goods coming in and out of the American Colonies that spurned a black market for cheaper goods that had been plundered from foreign vessels. At the time South Carolina was an impoverished colony that was only eager to trade with the pirates letting them move around town freely just as if they were in New Providence.

Archaeology is a continuously evolving field where there is a constant stream of new branches and excavation methods. Due to the influx of new technologies and innovations in recent decades, archaeologists have been able to excavate previously inaccessible areas. For example, new diving equipment and tools such as proton magnetometers, side-scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, and miniature submarines have allowed archaeologists to dive into the deep depths of the ocean. As a result, the branch of underwater archaeology was created to search for shipwrecks and other artifacts on the ocean floor. Underwater archaeology’s role has increased in recent years as it allows archaeologists to more accurately interpret the past by supplementing

Shackleton, the star of the novel ‘Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World’ was a very good leader, but what were three characteristics he could use for different occasions? He did show many different characteristics, but the best three I chose are Dauntless as well as Allegiance and don’t forget about Lively. Showing characteristics are always fun, but when you show good characteristics it’s even better. Shackleton is a prime example of showing good characteristics. “They could not linger in their cave all winter, dining on seal meat and toasting their feet at a driftwood fire. The men on Elephant Island were still counting on them.” The significance of this quote is so important because it shows that Shackleton does have loyalty to these guys. This man would not stop talking about his adventures in the south and kept on going back. This is an important topic to talk about because it may show others to be more like him and bring the good from inside them out just like Shackleton and his Dauntless, Allegiance, and Lively characteristics.

Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia; The current day names for the land of which the Barbary Pirates had once inhabited. These Barbary States would extort the world of their men and their cargo through plundering of naval ships. In the same time period there was a newly discovered land, which was striving to mature into an independent country. This land was known as America, and they were rigorously tearing apart from their homeland, England. “Once the United States declared independence, British diplomats were quick to inform the Barbary States that U.S. ships were open to attack. In 1785”(PA). The United States did not enjoy paying off the pirates, so they took it to their own hands to stop this problem once and for all. The defeat of the Barbary States, by Americans helped the naval security, a huge amount in the future of the “Land of the Free”, and allowed for lots of fighting experience.

The point of excavating the site is to give the opportunity to be able to find all the artifacts buried. It is noted that sometimes it’s not that easy especially when you’re trying to dig up a sunken ship. The problem with excavating a sunken ship is that it has been in that location since the 1700s which means there has been over 300 years of deformation of the ship and everything inside of it. It is a hard task to retrieve the artifacts then being able to restore them to their pristine condition. I remember seeing in the video that once they had extracted the cannon with a crane they had to remove all the crustaceans on it then they would have to bathe it in chemicals for years because if they didn’t the cannon would still be decaying. That being said not all the remains of the ship and its treasure will be found unfortunately.

In paragraph seven of the Florida Waters Treasure Hunting article it tells about, Mel Fisher, a treausure hunter in the early 1960s, used a method called the mailbox system. Using a big metal tube that was bent 90 degrees, it fit near the propeller. Jets would blow a strong current of water towards the ocean floor, blowing away sand and revealing anything under it.

Many people take the sinking of the USS Indianapolis for granted. Some people do not

“I got my blanket I didn’t get my cape on or life jacket I don't need that,” said Edgar Harrell, survivor of the USS Indianapolis. The sinking of the USS Indianapolis was the worst accident to ever happen in Naval history with over 900 men entering the water, only 316 survived. “We were losing three or four each night and day” said Cox. It became normal to see shark fins swimming at you. The sinking of the USS Indianapolis could have been prevented if the Guam Naval Base had warned the ship about the submarines, if more people knew about the ship, and if the three distress signals sent to Naval Base Guam were taken seriously.

The research vessel allowed footage of the sunken Titanic to be captured. The technology and submersible travel 16 hours round trip to actual ship 12,000 feet beneath the ocean surface. Cameron himself made the trip, when the submersible is traveling with little to see then, just 15 feet away the bow of the ship becomes visible. The more recent footage of the wreckage allows the editor to take us back in time by showing modern film that cuts recreated sets and actors in period costumes portraying passengers in 1912.

William Hunt, the secretary of the Navy in 1881, once wrote: “the conditions of the Navy imperatively demand the prompt and earnest attention of Congress. Unless some action be had in its behalf it must soon dwindle into insignificance.” Without technology advancements or change, the Navy would soon fall apart. The “Age of Sail” lasted from about the sixteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. It was a time in which our nation was fighting with wooden ships stacked with canons, and underdeveloped technology. Slowly, this started to change. As a country, the need for change began in the mid-nineteenth century, before the Civil War. The first of these

The USS Nautilus was commissioned on September 30, 1954. This submarine set a travel record in the record books by being the first ever nuclear submarine. The USS Nautilus was commissioned by the U.S. Navy and constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G.Rickover, a Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946 and 1947. In 1947, Hyman. Rickover was put incharge of the Navy’s nuclear-propulsion program and began working on the atomic submarine. Even though wasn’t a fanatic to his detractors, he still succeeded in creating the world’s first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule.The USS Nautilus was much larger than the diesel-electric submarine that preceded it, the Nautilus had stretched 319 feet and displaced

On July 2013 My group and I will be able to get a hold of the artifacts we had found on the shipwrecks, this discovery was located in the gulf of Mexico. When we discovered the shipwreck location, which was down in the gulf, about 4363 feet down was where the three beautiful vessels were lying. But the amazing part of it all was that we found one ship first and then we ended up finding two others, we called the three shipwreck the Monterrey shipwreck. As well, the site was left undisturbed most likely the ships date back from the 19th century, which blew our minds as what Fritz Hanselmann had told the reporters "What you're going to see and hear, I hope will blow your mind, Because it has ours" we are so excited to share this discovery with

In “Diving Into The Wreck”, Rich’s well crafted imagery and use of an extended metaphor helps to develop a powerful theme. In this poem, Rich suggests once people go through a traumatic experience they tend to hide behind a false memory they create in order to protect themselves. In order for people to completely heal themselves, they must be willing to go back into the memories they have suppressed. By taking this journey, they can reclaim what beauty was lost and put to rest the damage that was done, allowing for a rebirth of their soul.

Forty-six years later, May 8, 1991, a computer-controlled submarine scanned the ocean floor for sunken galleons. On this day, the crew of the Deep Sea would be unsuccessful in their search for galleons. Instead, 750 feet below the surface of the ocean, they would discover the outline of an