Famous underwater archaeologist James Delgado appeared to discuss his new book, “The Great Museum of the C” in “CBS Morning” on Friday and reflected over 50 years of discovery of historical ships worldwide.
Delgado, who has investigated more than 100 shipwreak globally, attracted international attention in 2019, when he discovered Clotilda to the last known slave ship coming to the United States. Search was later painted in one “60 minutes” section with Anderson Cooper.
The archaeologist’s attraction with Shipavrak began in childhood while growing up in the San Francisco Gulf region, where he learned about ships from the 1849 gold crowd. He said that comprehensive preparation is required to detect ships.
He said, “It takes a team. And that team consists of Oceanographers, who understand the streams. We are also looking at the old records and charts. You are also trying to understand its forensic,” he said.
The process involves analyzing factors such as ship speed and sailing patterns. Once located once, debris often does not match popular expectations.
He said, “We have great images that people think of as Shipavrak, but there are piles of rockets and wood and anchor, and then you go, all right, I really see what I am looking here,” he said.
In his book, Delgado described the sea as a “largest museum on earth” and argued that every shipwreke has a story to tell.
“I think the most important thing for people to remember about Shipavrak is that it is okay to have different meanings,” Dalegado said. “Some people like them because they inspire you with bravery stories. Others are sad and sad. For some, they are family graves. But for others, they are a great opportunity to dive and find.”
There is also archaeologist Titanic detected, Despite the fame of the ship, the experience is highly described.
“Nothing prepares you to see ‘Titanic’,” he said.
After a 2.5-hour lineage in a Russian submersible, so intense with pressure that “a regular styrofom coffee cup is squeezed down” when at the outward, Delgado said that the ship suddenly disappeared when the ship appeared.
“There it was getting out of the darkness,” he recalled. “This huge hull is growing twice as the roof here. It is still painted but the streak with rust and rust that are orange and yellow and red. And then a purthol that is open and another closed.”
Delgado described a particularly terrible moment: “One of the most magnificent moments – because ‘Titanic’ is a ship of the dead – when I first saw through Porthol, 2.5 miles down, light, light – I could see a face that he was looking back to me in Porthol. It was my own reflection.”
He reflected on the permanent power of the ship: “This ship sitting downwards was ruined and the deteriorating is still the platform on which some most powerful plays were played, which we all know about the ship. And you are there.”
,The Great Museum of the Sea “is available wherever books are sold.
