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Underwater Forensic Archaeological Excavation of an Aircraft Wreck Site using Saturation Diving Capabilities (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), with the support of the U.S. Navy's Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) and working in conjunction with the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU), embarked on the underwater excavation of a WWII U.S. heavy bomber wreck site in the Bismarck Sea,...