Nautical Archaeology – Experience & Qualifications
Offshore Credentials
- Offshore Water Survival HUET METS Model 5, Personnel Transfer Basket / Swing Rope
- PEC Offshore, SEMS II, SafeGulf, SafeLandUSA, TRAP
- USCG (Seafarer) Medical Certificates
Technical Certifications
- Technical Diving International (Surface Supplied Diver, Tender, Air Operator, Dry Suit Diver)
- American Academy of Underwater Sciences, Scientific Divers (Specialized Diving Mode Endorsement: Surface Supplied Diving)
Knowledge and Skills
- Archaeological diver investigations, evaluations, and data recovery;
- Remote Operated Vehicles archaeological investigations and assessments;
- High resolution geophysical survey planning, operations, data processing, analysis, and archaeological interpretation;
- Geotechnical investigations: auguring, vibratory coring, gravity coring, wet sieve, core sampling, surficial sampling, C-14 sampling, and hard rock sampling
- Geotechnical analyses including statistical analysis, sediment magnetic susceptibility, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry preparation/analysis, micro paleontological analysis
CONUS Experience
- Gulf of Mexico
- Atlantic Ocean (outer Continental Shelf)
- Great Lakes
- Intracoastal and Inland waterways
- Nearshore (State) and Offshore (Federal) waters
OCONUS Experience
- North Atlantic
- English Channel
- Baie de Siene
- South China Sea
- Mediterranean
- Western Pacific