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| Harry Pecorelli investiages ballast pipes of
the Hunley. Courtesy of Friends of the Hunley |
Ralph Wilbanks and Harry
Pecorelli
Ralph Wilbanks and Harry Pecorelli, along with
Wes Hall formed the core of Clive Custler's NUMA (National Underwater
Marine Agency) team that found the H.L. Hunley. Ralph is a
Coastal Surveyor and Underwater Archeologist with more than 250
underwater projects in his resume' since 1975, including one in
Minnesota. He continues his work with NUMA and is the Principal
Investigator for Diversified Wilbanks, Inc. of Yonges Island, SC.
Underwater Archeolgist Harry Pecorelli also has an
impressive list of Remote Sensing Surveys in his professional resume'.
He now also works for Diversified Wilbanks, Inc. Beyond his
Underwater Archeology work Harry also worked in the lab with some of the
cutting edge techniques used to unlock the mysteries of the amazing time
capsule H.L. Hunley. |
Richie
Kohler
Richie Kohler
is an experienced technical
wreck diver and shipwreck historian who has been diving and exploring
shipwrecks since 1980. Together with John Chatterton, Kohler was one of
the co-hosts of the television series Deep Sea Detectives on the
History Channel and is also a consultant for the film and television
industry on shipwreck and diving projects
Kohler's life long passion has been
exploring the famous shipwrecks around the world, including the
SS Andrea Doria and most recently, the
RMS Titanic. Diving from the Russian research vessel Keldysh,
Kohler made multiple dives to 3,786 meters (12,421 ft) in the
MIR submersibles to explore the wreck site.
Kohler's work identifying a World
War II German Submarine, U-869 off the coast of New Jersey has been the
subject of several television documentaries and a new best selling book
by Robert Kurson,
Shadow Divers. The New York Times bestseller will soon be a
major motion picture by 20th Century Fox, directed and produced by Peter
Weir.
Richie Kohler is also currently
one of the hosts of television series Dive Portal Magazine. |
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Fred Stonehouse
Frederick Stonehouse
holds a Master of Arts degree in History from Northern Michigan
University, Marquette, Michigan and has authored thirty books on Great
Lakes maritime history. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and
Great Lakes Lighthouse Tales are regional best sellers. Wreck
Ashore, the U.S. Life-Saving Service on the Great Lakes, won a
national publishing award and is the predominant work on the subject.
He has also been a consultant for both the U.S.
National Park Service and Parks Canada and has been an "on-air" expert
for National Geographic, History Channel and Fox
Family, as well as many regional media productions. He received the
2006 award for Historic Interpretation from the Association for Great
Lakes Maritime History and was named the 2007 Maritime Historian of the
Year by the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
Fred also teaches Great Lakes maritime history at
Northern Michigan University and is an active consultant for numerous
Great Lakes oriented projects and programs and is President of the Board
of Directors of the United States Life-Saving Service Heritage
Association.
Fred makes his home in Marquette, Michigan.
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Richard Dreher
Richard Dreher is an active technical diving
instructor trainer who specializes in mixed gas, advanced wreck, and
cave instruction. Richard has worked fulltime in the dive industry for
over 10 years and now resides in High Springs, Florida. He is the
former owner of Scuba Dive and Travel in Minneapolis, a veteran speaker
at Dive Into the Past, and currently
operates Superior Dive Training, Dive Into HD, and Hydro Lodge Inc. |
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Russ
Green
Russ Green is the
assistant superintendent at the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. A
former underwater archaeologist for the state of Wisconsin, Russ
obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Rhode Island
and a graduate degree in maritime studies from East Carolina University.
He has been involved with maritime archeology projects along much of the
east coast and Great Lakes, as well as Bermuda and Micronesia. Trained
in mixed gas and closed circuit rebreather diving, Russ has led several
technical diving expeditions in the Great Lakes and worked on the Civil
War ironclad USS Monitor. |
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Steve
Daniel
Steve Daniel is president of the GLSPS. He has
been diving for 41 years and has helped the GLSPS on numerous dive projects
during the past nine years. He played a major roll in the underwater
documentation project of the SS America shipwreck at Isle Royale.
Steve published the results, which includes a history of the ship by Thom
Holden, in the GLSPS book, SS America, A Diver’s Vision of the Past.
He recently completed a new book for the GLSPS that will serve as a resource
for history and diving along Minnesota’s North Shore. The book was
published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press and is titled:
Shipwrecks along Lake Superior’s North Shore.
Steve will share
some highlights about the book with you and have copies available for
those who are interested afterwards. |
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