- Historic Sites Digging Up The U.S. In the underpinnings of our
cities, in desolate swampland, beneath coastal waters—wherever
the early settlers left traces of their lives—a new generation
of archaeologists is uncovering a lost world August/september
1983 | Volume 34, Issue 5 “Ripping stuff off from coastal waters
is apparently considered part of the American ethic.” By early
afternoon Murphy finally has everything under control, and as we
traverse the bay along parallel lanes one hundred feet apart,
the first anomalies begin to show up on the graphic recorders.
One of these is from the wreck of the Pomo , a steamer that ran
aground in 1913 and whose engine block is still visible at low
tide. Then, just before two o’clock, both the magnetometer and
the side-scan sonar register simultaneous deviations. “We got a
mag hit,” Murphy shouts exultantly, poking his bearded face out
of the galley to see where we are. The readout on the sonar
graph, which looks like one of those video pictures of a lunar
landscape, s