 He also worked with and continues to work with Dr, Robert Ballard's Ocean Exploration Trust on telepresence missions.These have included the first telepresence-assisted maritime archaeological excavation in deep water, with an early 19th century shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico in 2013, the archaeological reconnaissance of the wrecks of the SS "Coast Trader" and SS "Dorothy Wintermote", and the first archaeological documentation of the wrecks of USS "Independence" and USS "Bugara".Delgado created a NOAA maritime heritage publication series, instituted the use of maritime cultural landscapes as a principle for characterizing and managing maritime cultural resources in the National Marine Sanctuary System, and led NOAA's ongoing role in the U.S. Government's activities related to the wreck of "Titanic".