Welcome to the
Institute of Nautical Archaeology!

For over three decades INA researchers in association with the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University have been exploring humankind's seafaring past under water and on land; via shipwrecks and sunken cities; from North America to the Middle East, Africa, and beyond!

Queen Anne's Revenge
Shipwreck Project

Underwater Archaeology Branch
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources

La Salle Shipwreck Project

The Belle is one of the most important shipwrecks ever discovered in North America. The excavation, conducted in a cofferdam in Matagorda Bay, lasted almost a year and produced an amazing array of finds, including the hull of the ship, three bronze cannons, thousands of glass beads, bronze hawk bells, pottery and even the skeleton of a crew member.

Schooner Bermuda

Schooner Bermuda

The Bermuda shipwreck site (20US47) is located in Murray Bay at Grand Island, 2 miles north of Munising, Michigan. The 2002 Bermuda Shipwreck Survey, conducted under Michigan permit 02-17-0002, was undertaken over a two-week period in September 2002.
Great Lakes Institute for Marine Research

Emanuel Point

Emanuel Point Shipwreck

Florida's earliest shipwreck site was discovered in 1992 during a survey of Pensacola Bay. The investigations determined that the lower hull of a Colonial Spanish ship, along with its contents, are in a surprising state of preservation.

NHCUAB

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
Underwater Archaeology Branch

The Naval Historical Center's Underwater Archaeology Branch advises the Navy in matters related to historic preservation of U.S. Navy ship and aircraft wrecks.

CMA

Centre for Maritime Archaeology

The Centre for Maritime Archaeology was established to provide a focus for maritime archaeological research within the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.

Queensland Museum

HMS Pandora

Since 1983, the Queensland Museum has been excavating the wreck of the Pandora - widely regarded as one of the most significant shipwrecks in the Southern Hemisphere.

Opal Shipwreck

Pensacola Beach-Opal Shipwreck

Sometimes underwater resources are not underwater, but on land. Here in Pensacola Beach, Florida (and probably elsewhere), shipwrecks have been washed up on shore and covered by sand dunes. Storms sometimes expose these buried shipwrecks.

Santa Rosa Island

Santa Rosa Island Shipwreck

Historically, two ships are known to have wrecked in the vicinity of Santa Rosa Island during the first half of the 18th century–the Nuestra Senora del Rosario y Santiago Apostol, a third-rate warship constructed in New Spain in 1695 and wrecked at Pensacola in 1705, and El Vigilante, a merchant frigate under the command of Joseph de Piz that was wrecked in 1732 while carrying the annual situado (payroll) to the Spanish presidio at Isla de Santa Rosa.

The Swan

The SWAN
In 1653, A daring plan was hatched by Oliver Cromwell, the father of the Royal Navy. His sights were set on Destroying the Clan MacLean at the seat of their formidable sea-borne power, Duart Castle. A sea borne expedition of heavily armed ships set out to the western highlands to accomplish this goal. They included at five ships and; The Swan

Azores and Angra Bay

Shipwrecks of
Azores and Angra Bay

More than 900 ships are recorded as lost in the Azores; only 142 - circa 15% - of these ever carried treasure, of which 22 were wrecked inside Angra bay, in depths that go as deep as 60 meters.

Newport Ship

The Newport Ship

In July 2002 the remarkably well preserved remains of a mediaeval ship were discovered during excavation works for a new Arts Centre on the banks of the River Usk in central Newport, South Wales.

Kronan

Kronan

At noon, June 1st 1676, the Royal ship Kronan ('The Crown') capsized, exploded and sank off the east coast of the Baltic island of Öland. Kronan sank before the beginning of an action between the Swedish and the allied Danish-Dutch fleet, known in Swedish history, as "The Battle off Southern Öland".