Shipwreck Weekend

04/12/2025

Thank you everyone for coming out to Shipwreck Weekend! The storms cleared for us in the afternoon and made for a busy open house.

Remember we do this every year so go ahead and mark your calendars for next year's Shipwreck Weekend.

04/09/2025

This year's tin foil boat winner got to 226 pennies before their boat sank! Join us next year to see if you can beat the record.

04/09/2025

Shipwreck Weekend isn't possible without the help of our nautical program students as well as their friends and family. We all come together to show the public how exciting and diverse the field of underwater archaeology is.

The rain made taking a group photo a bit complicated this year but here are a few of our volunteers throughout the day. Stay tuned for more photos of the open house!

04/07/2025

We want to thank Tamara Thomsen from the Wisconsin Historical Society and Dr. Jessi Halligan from the Texas A&M Center for the Study of the First Americans for two outstanding lectures covering the Great Lakes this past Saturday.

We hope to see you all next year for Shipwreck Weekend 2026!

04/05/2025

Shipwreck Weekend is TODAY! We will see you all soon for the kickoff at Scoates where we will have guest lecturers Tamara Thomsen and Dr. Jessi Halligan presenting their work. Stick around this afternoon for the department open house at the Anthropology building.

04/04/2025

We're not afraid of a little water! Shipwreck Weekend will be happening rain or shine.

04/04/2025

Stop on by before our open house finishes for the day with the last student lecture by master student, Hunter Johnson from 3:30-4pm.

04/03/2025

Stop by the Anthropology building 3-3:30 to hear PhD student, Patrick Boyle, present on his dissertation research. Be sure to stick around after his talk to explore the labs and activities at the open house that ends at 4pm.

04/03/2025

Check out co-organizers Marissa Agerton and Kristen Crouse during their KBTX interview for Shipwreck Weekend last Friday!

Take a trip into the history of the ocean at this event with the A&M nautical archaeology department called Shipwreck weekend.

04/02/2025

Want to learn about a group of cannons found in a river? Come to ANTH room 130 during our open house to listen to a lecture by master student, Alyssa Carpenter.

04/01/2025

Next on our list of graduate presenters for this Saturday is PhD student, Ethan Mock. Stop by room 2-2:30 while you're at the open house to learn about Aegean Sponge Divers.

03/31/2025

Join us this Saturday for a series of short lecturers presented by NAP graduate students on their research. These will be occuring in the first floor lecture room of the ANTH building while the open house is happening.

Our first presenter will be PhD student, Pin-Wen Chen, at 1:30-2 pm discussing the archaeology of the Penghu Islands in Taiwan.

Photo Credit: Research Center for Underwater Archaeology and Heritage, National Tsing Hua University