Divers find the rear portion of the CLARA NEVADA's main shaft
was unbolted and missing, giving testimony to a reported 1919
salvage effort which removed the propeller. This movie clip
begins at the unbolted section as a diver swims forward over the
engine and along the keelson. (Quicktime, 3.5 Mb.) Submerged
Cultural Resource Management on the Last Frontier:
Reconnaissance, GIS Mapping, and Biotic/Geochemical
Characterization of Threatened Shipwreck Sites in Southeast
Alaska April 4 – April 12, 2006 Dave McMahan, State
Archaeologist Office of History and Archaeology Alaska
Department of Natural Resources Nearly half of the United States
ocean coastline falls within the boundaries of the state of
Alaska. Home for thousands of years to indigenous maritime
Aleut, Eskimo, and coastal Indian cultures, Alaska and its
people, past and present, have inextricable links with the sea.
A longstanding source of food and clothing and, in historic
times, a place of economic opportunity, Alaska’s coastal waters
provide criti