Initial Archaeological Survey of the ex-USS Independence (CVL-22)
| Autor: | Robert V. Schwemmer, James P. Delgado, Frank Cantelas, Kelley Elliott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Archeology
Artifact (archaeology) Ocean observations Government History 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Feature (archaeology) 010505 oceanography media_common.quotation_subject 01 natural sciences Sonar Archaeology Independence Test (assessment) Craft 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Maritime Archaeology. 11:9-24 |
| ISSN: | 1557-2293 1557-2285 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11457-016-9152-9 |
| Popis: | The Boeing Company, collaborating with NOAA to address innovative ways to make ocean observations, provided their autonomous underwater vehicle, Echo Ranger, to conduct the first deep-water archaeological survey of the scuttled aircraft carrier USS Independence in the waters of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in March 2015. While a preliminary effort, and not comprehensive, the survey confirmed that a sonar feature (previously not proven to be an archaeological feature) charted at the location was Independence, and provided details on the condition of the wreck. At the same time, new information from declassified government reports provided more detail on Independence’s use as a naval test craft for radiological decontamination as well as its use as a repository for radioactive materials at the time of its scuttling in 1951. The wreck is historically significant, but also of archaeological significance as an artifact of the early years of the atomic age and of the Cold War. This article summarizes Independence’s contexts, its nuclear history, and the results of the survey of the wreck site. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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