Submerged: Adventures of America's Most Elite Underwater Archeology Team

Enter the high-risk world of underwater archeology, where deep-water exploration meets the front lines of historic preservation.

Experience a kaleidoscope of real-life underwater missions, ranging from ancient ruins covered by reservoirs in the desert Southwest to a World War II submarine off the Alaskan coast; from the Isle Royale shipwrecks in the frigid Lake Superior to the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor; from the HL Hunley, the first submarine in history to sink an enemy ship, in Charleston Harbor to the ships sunk by atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll, and much more.

Daniel Lenihan chronicles twenty-five years leading the federal team, tracing hazardous assignments from pitch-black sinkholes to coastal drop-offs.

The Submerged Cultural Resources Unit maps delicate sites under extreme conditions, navigating battered hulls through zero-visibility silt and frigid waters.

The narrative records forensic surveys of the HMS Fowey alongside perilous body recoveries in flooded dam powerhouses.

• Scuba Diving: The team deploys custom dry suits, manifolded double tanks, and in-water oxygen decompression to endure thirty-four-degree depths in Lake Superior and toxic subterranean sinkholes.
• Naval History: Archival research pairs with deep-water dives off Cherbourg to examine the retractable propeller mechanism and rifled Blakely cannon of the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama.
• Against the Odds: Marine Corps twin-rotor helicopters execute a perilous hover beneath the jungle canopy on Molokai to extract robotic survey boats from the sheer rock walls of Kauhako Crater.
• Case Studies: Early low-cost remote-operated vehicles penetrate the engine room skylight of the Kamloops at 260 feet and document bulkhead decay inside the USS Arizona without disturbing the war grave.

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