UWF Maritime Archaeology

12/05/2025

Our last topic before finals looks at advanced diving methods. Here UWF Dive Safety Officer Fritz Sharar explains the operation of rebreathers.

10/03/2025

CPR, First Aid, and oxygen administration training for the UWF scientific diving class.

09/26/2025

UWF’s scientific diving class Is going at full speed! We follow the American Academy of Underwater Sciences regulations, training the next generation of scientific divers.

06/26/2025

Supervisors and students heading to work!

06/26/2025

Deploying Marine Magnetics’ Argos diver handheld gradiometer to investigate a magnetic anomaly. Wish us luck!

06/25/2025

Deploying divers to investigate remote sensing anomalies in Pensacola Bay!

06/17/2025

06/17/2025

With Florida weather days, time to review and analyze our remote sensing data. We’ve found a new wreck so far, how about two or three more?!

06/06/2025

We have been investigating a sonar anomaly as part of UWF’s maritime archaeology fieldschool! It was interpreted as a portion of a lumber schooner that broke off of the main wreck nearby… until we began to dive on the target. It has ballast stones, and a sternpost with an intact gudgeon (part of the hinge- joint for the rudder). Conclusion- this is a new wreck that has not yet been studied!

05/28/2025

UWF Maritime Archaeology Fieldschool is full speed ahead! Students rocked sci dive training week, and did a load-out this morning for ops on the Shields Point Wrecks in the Blackwater river. More to come!

05/21/2025

Swim tests, scuba checks, and underwater archaeology skills in the UWF pool! Our students rocked- tomorrow we do it all again in Pensacola Bay.

05/20/2025

Busy day of scientific dive training for UWF’s Maritime Archaeology Fieldschool! CPR/First Aid, Oxygen Administration, Basic mapping techniques, compass navigation and knots, on land today at our Marine services center, then in the pool tomorrow, and then open water Thursday.