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Cape Cod National Seashore
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The seashore coastline and associated shoals of Cape Cod hold the remains of more than 500 vessels, including the Sparrowhawk of 1623, and the 64-gun HMS Somerset, wrecked in 1778 during the Revolutionary War. The park is the locus of a tremendous amount of early New England maritime activity and the waters and shifting sands of the National Seashore comprise a veritable shipwreck graveyard.
Although there have been a number of underwater archeological recons and surveys conducted by SRC in the area, they have usually been piggybacked onto other operations. A systematic underwater survey of NPS and associated state waters has been highly recommended by SRC for some time. |
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| - September 1987 Cape Cod NS and Fire Island NS shipwreck survey and site documentation. Supervision of US Navy Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1 reservist diving operations, magnetometer and sidescan sonar operation. US Navy support was provided under the auspices of Project Seamark. Larry Murphy was Project Director. Larry Nordby did an update of the orginal map of Bark Frances showing heavy sand accretion on the site.
- September 1985 Training course for park rangers at Cape Cod NS in submerged site documentation taught by SRC. Directed by Daniel Lenihan. Mapped shipwreck site of the Bark Frances. Larry Nordby from SRC was illustrator. Toni Carrell from SRC assisted as course instructor as did local diver and archeologist, Art Cohn.
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Cape Cod National Seashore
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