A second volume of scientific and archaeological papers tout the advantages of commercial archaeology in investigating shipwrecks and returning artifacts to scientific and commercial circulation. The
Odyssey Marine Explorations is a private company in Tampa, Florida co-founded and run by Stemm. Here is a first collection of reports from its projects. Many of them involve the shipwreck of the SS Re
In 1990 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology of Tampa commenced the world’s first archaeological excavation of a deep-sea shipwreck south of the Tortugas Islands in the Straits of Florida. From a depth of 40
"The Tortugas shipwreck excavated at a depth of 405 meters in the Straits of Florida contained a major collection of 3,800 intact and fragmentary olive jars, tablewares, cooking vessels and tobacco pi
