LOUISVILLE, Ky. 鈥 Deep-sea explorer and author Jim Delgado will discuss history鈥檚 most significant shipwrecks around the world from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age during a Sept. 21 talk at the University of Louisville.
The archaeologist has spent four decades studying more than 100 shipwrecks from the Titanic to the Monitor.
His free, public lecture on 鈥淭he Great Museum of the Sea鈥 will begin at 4 p.m. in Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library. The event is sponsored by the Liberal Studies Project in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Delgado will span three millennia in his presentation focusing on the wrecks and what archaeology reveals about them and the people who built and worked on the ships. He also will discuss the evolution of underwater archaeology, including more recent work involving new technologies, approaches and perspectives.
聽 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽聽This year Delgado became senior vice president of SEARCH Inc., an archaeological consulting and monitoring company, after a seven-year stint as director of the Maritime Heritage Program for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration鈥檚 Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. He is a former executive director and president of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, former executive director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum and founding director of the National Park Service鈥檚 maritime preservation program.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The archaeologist was host of the popular television show 鈥淭he Sea Hunters鈥 for five years and has been a TV host for Discovery, History, A&E and National Geographic. Delgado鈥檚 fieldwork has included the wrecks of the USS Monitor, USS Arizona, a Civil War submarine, lost fleet of Kublai Khan and the atomic-bombed warships at Bikini Atoll. He also served as chief scientist for the first full mapping of the Titanic site. He has written or edited more than 30 books on history and archaeology.