MAHS meets monthly - You're invited!
July Meeting
The MAHS 2009 Field School and Video Survey on Molasses Reef
MAHS recently held its 2009 Field School on Molasses Reef in the Florida Keys. We also began a long-term project to survey unidentified
shipwreck debris on a portion of the reef. Both efforts were highly successful.
At the July Membership Meeting the MAHS team will discuss the Field School and will present results from the initial season of survey
work. The survey included a high-definition video survey which we are planning to use in generating a preliminary map of the site. The map
will be submitted to the State of Florida and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, within which the site is located.
MAHS News
Diver Preparedness Classes
DAN First Aid for Scuba Diving Professionals
Sat. July 18 and Sun. July 19 at 9 am each day.
For MAHS members only. Price is $150 including course materials.
Includes O2, AED, Hazardous Marine Life Injuries, plus workplace CPR and First Aid.
For a course description see: www.diversalertnetwork.org
For details contact Course Instructor Earl Glock: earlglock@aol.com
Bodkin Creek Project Started
Thanks to the many MAHS volunteers and the experts of Azulmar
Research,
MAHS started the Bodkin Creek project by performing a side-scan and
magnetometer survey of the mouth of Bodkin Creek on the
Chesapeake bay.
We were successful in locating several sunken ships and many more
possible sites. All of these sites will be ground truthed by
diving and the use of an ROV,
following post processing of the data collected.
We were based out of Pleasure Cove Marina (Directions)
in Pasadena, Maryland, who graciously provided us with first class
facilities.
We will return there to dive these sites on the
weekends, over the next several weeks, continuing until early November.
MAHS members who have completed the field school, are encouraged to
come out and dive the wrecks and observe a ROV in action.
Over the winter, we will have opportunities to conduct
archival reseach and investigations of important
terrestrial sites in the area, before resuming diving operations in
the spring.
2008 Florida Field School
MAHS held a field school in July 2008 at the Slobodna wreck site in the Florida Keys.
Click here to see photos from the field school.
Pamunkey River Project
White House Landing on the Pamunkey River in Virginia was for a time an important logistics base
for the Union Army in the spring of 1862.
Barges side by side were part of the water borne supply net to support General McClellans Peninsula Campaign
by way of the York River. MAHS is currently working on a project to investigate these barges or canal boats.
Click here to visit the Pamunkey River Project website.
