Adventures in Deep Sea Archaeology

I’m a huge fan of a show called Drain the Oceans. In it, you have teams of researchers armed with the latest in Hi_Tech Deep Sea equipment. They hunt down and analysis famous ship wrecks.

So of the ships they visited include the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington, and the wrecks that followed the battle of Jutland.

While most of these wrecks are too deep to dive, they use sonar and robot cameras to map the wreck. This data is then placed into a computer and a CGI created from the scans. You end up with a walk around model that allows you to examine the wreck in close detail.

And they toss in a lot of good history. Stories I’d never heard like the Last Slave Ship or stories of diving on the Arizona and mapping her out.

I’d love to join one of these crews and hunt for these wrecks. To sit in front of a computer monitor and see something no one has seen before. Or to help hunt down the wreck of some ship or plane that vanished long ago.

To me, that would be fun, challenging, and a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Learn about the show HERE.