If you missed the anoucement, here it is again. The ROV pilot is Craig Bissel and the Director is Ivar Babb. Both real good guys who will take their time to help you and answer your questions.
Pete Johnson
Join NOAA scientists and archaeologists from the National Undersea
Research Center at the University of Connecticut and the Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary on Saturday, 15 July 2006 as they
explore the shipwreck of the coal schooners Frank A. Palmer and Louise
B. Crary via a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). 30-minute live
broadcasts from the shipwreck will take place at 11:00am and 2:00 pm
(EDT) at the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center and over the World
Wide Web at
http://www.nurc.uconn.edu. Sunday 16 July 2006 will serve
as a backup day for the live broadcast in the event of weather or
equipment problems. The live broadcasts are part of the Fifth Annual
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Celebration, to be held at
the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center. The event highlights the
natural and historical resources of New Englands only national marine
sanctuary and includes New England's portion of the Reef Environmental
Education Foundation's Great Annual Fish Count.
A SIDE SCAN PHOTO OF THE FRANK A. PALMER / LOUIS B. CRARY SHIPWRECK IS
AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEB PAGE:
http://www.sanctuaries.nos.noaa.gov/news/press/2006/pr042406.html
*NEWS FROM NOAA*
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
May 15, 2006
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Contact: Deborah Marx or Matthew Lawrence (781) 545-8026
RESEARCHERS TO BROADCAST LIVE FROM NOAA STELLWAGEN BANK NATIONAL
MARINE SANCTUARY
Online Video Feed will Showcase Historic Shipwrecks
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the
National Undersea Research Center at the University of Connecticut
(NURC-UConn) will offer the public a real-time view of a pair of
historic New England shipwrecks as researchers explore them on July 15
with a remotely operated vehicle.
Video of the wrecks will be broadcast live from a research ship
operating off the Massachusetts coast in Stellwagen Bank National
Marine Sanctuary. The public can view the ship-to-shore broadcasts
through the Internet at
www.nurc.uconn.edu, or at the Gloucester
(Mass.) Maritime Heritage Center.
New technologies are enabling us to explore our ocean world like
never before, said Craig MacDonald, superintendent of Stellwagen Bank
National Marine Sanctuary.
During the broadcasts, experts from NOAA and NURC-UConn will provide
commentary about the history of the ill-fated coal schooners Frank A.
Palmer and Louise B. Crary, the marine life on and around the wrecks,
and ongoing research and management efforts to understand and protect
these and other maritime heritage resources in the sanctuary. The 30-
minute broadcasts are planned for 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. EDT on
Saturday, July 15.
The live broadcasts are part of the Fifth Annual Stellwagen Bank
National Marine Sanctuary Celebration, to be held at the Gloucester
Maritime Heritage Center. The event highlights the natural and
historical resources of New Englands only national marine sanctuary.
A long-running component of the Sanctuary Celebration has been the New
England portion of the Great Annual Fish Count, an international
program that encourages divers and snorkelers to identify and count
fish in local waters. Coordinated by the Reef Environmental Education
Foundation, this year's fish count will run throughout the month of
July in coastal areas around the world.
The Frank A. Palmer and Louise B. Crary collided in Massachusetts Bay
in December 1902 and sank in more than 300 feet of water. Today, the
Maine-built schooners sit upright on the seafloor of the sanctuary,
still joined at the bow. Scientists from NOAA and NURC-UConn confirmed
the ships location within the sanctuary in 2002 based upon the
coordinates supplied by maritime researchers H. Arnold Carr and John
P. Fish. Since then, NOAA and NURC-UConn researchers have visited the
wrecks annually with a remotely operated vehicle to monitor, study and
document their condition. The shipwreck site was recently listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
The NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program manages 13 national marine
sanctuaries and one coral reef ecosystem reserve that together
encompass more than 150,000 square miles of Americas ocean and Great
Lakes natural and cultural resources. The sanctuary program seeks to
increase public awareness of Americas marine resources and maritime
heritage by conducting scientific research, monitoring, exploration
and educational programs.
The NOAA National Undersea Research Program funds six research centers
around the country at major universities. The National Undersea
Research Center for the North Atlantic and Great Lakes is located at
the University of Connecticut at Avery Point. This center supports and
conducts research in the waters off the northeast coast of the U.S.
including the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, Southern New England Bight
including Long Island Sound and the Great Lakes.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Commerce Department, is dedicated to
enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction
and research of weather and climate-related events and providing
environmental stewardship of our nations coastal and marine
resources. Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with our federal partners and 60
countries to develop a global Earth observation network that is as
integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
On the Internet:
NOAA -
www.noaa.gov
National Ocean Service - oceanservice.noaa.gov
National Marine Sanctuary Program - sanctuaries.noaa.gov
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary - stellwagen.noaa.gov
National Undersea Research Center at the University of Connecticut -
www.nurc.uconn.edu
NOAA Preserve America Initiative - preserveamerica.noaa.gov
