 In 2014, he was named an Officer of the Order of Civil Merit, Knight's Cross by his Majesty Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, for services rendered to Spain for the protection of Spanish underwater cultural heritage while President and CEO of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology in the matter of the wreck of the frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, 2014.Delgado's minor as an undergraduate was journalism.He has applied this emphasis to a number of the articles and books he has written, to connect to the public.