 In April 2008, he was elected President and CEO of this worldwide nautical archaeology organization.Among his achievements were a new strategic plan, a new website and publications, new partnerships and several international projects undertaken by INA scholars.Among those were the excavation of a Phoenician wreck in Spain, the study of a riverine naval battle of 1288 in Vietnam, the excavation of Byzantine wrecks in Istanbul, and the study of abandoned and wrecked river steamers in Canada's Yukon.