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December, 2006 > Completed a major update to the Home Page and the Torrent Shipwreck Project pages and added the full text of the team's Field Archaeology Permit Application, the slideshow presentation on the Torrent that was presented at the Alaska Historical Society annual meeting in October, and the 2007 Expedition Sponsorship page.

July 29, 2006 > I've just returned from Valdez, Alaska where I was privileged to assist with the production of an episode of the new documentary series "Man Versus Nature" starring British survival expert Bear Grylls. I have posted some photos taken during my short portion of the 9-day shoot. This episode, one of 12 airing this season, will broadcast in the UK this winter and in the US on The Discovery Channel early in 2007. Be sure to visit the Bear Grylls web site to learn more about this charming and dynamic man!

July 11, 2006 > Added a brief trip summary and the first images from the 2006 Torrent Expedition to Cook Inlet, Alaska.

Added text and images for a new article I wrote entitled "Solve Each Problem as It Arises".

May 8, 2006 > Added 35 new historic images of the old Seward, Alaska waterfront to the Seward Steamship Dock project page. I'll add descriptive captions to many or all of them later, along with many more underwater images of the site today.

On May 5th I chartered a Cessna 185 out of Homer and spent some time flying over the Torrent wreck site in lower Cook Inlet. On the Torrent Shipwreck Project page, I added 3 aerial photos of the reef structure where I believe the 138-year-old shipwreck of the Army transport bark will be found.

April 28, 2006 > Added the text of Bradley Steven's libelous editorial concerning the Kad'yak shipwreck, which was published in Kodiak Daily Mirror on December 10, 2003. This is the lying, venomous, misleading op-ed piece that I so artfully refuted in my response which was published about a week later.

April 25, 2006 > Added an extensive group of pages I'm referring to as The Kad'yak Debacle and also titled "The Russian-American Company bark Kad'yak (1860): How the oldest shipwreck ever discovered in Alaska was inexplicably lost again, then immediately (and miraculously) found by someone else shortly thereafter".

April 23, 2006 > Added the Aleutian Shipwreck Project page with the first dozen or so of the hundreds of images to come concerning the history and discovery of the 375-foot passenger liner that I discovered off Alaska's Kodiak Island in 2002.

April 22, 2006 > Added the Seward Steamship Dock page to Shipwreck Projects, even though this project doesn't relate to a specific vessel. In addition to many more underwater images, I have located more than 30 historic photos of the Seward, Alaska waterfront that I'll be adding to this page over time.

Also added photos and description of my custom-made Sink Cam video camera light and my Diver Tow Sled to the new Dive Gear page.

April 21, 2006 > Added a Friends Page which (so far) has only a select few as I work to locate images and make new friends. Made the first additions to the emphemera gallery with a display of historic Steamship Company Brochures.

Added more than 20 images of the Alaska Steamship Co. liner S.S. Yukon that sunk in February, 1946 near Johnstone Bay out of Seward, in the Gulf of Alaska.

April 18, 2006 > Added the first archival pages with historic newspaper articles and deck plans for Aleutian.

April 17, 2006 > Added initial pages with opening photos.