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Site Type Keywords
Water-Related •
Shipwreck •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Other Keywords
Schooner
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Euroamerican
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Historic Background Research •
Archaeological Overview •
Heritage Management
Geographic Keywords
Santa Barbara County (County)
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Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment (1996)
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This report gathers together historical and archeological information on vessels that wrecked within the boundaries of Channel Islands National Park and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary before 1980, when the two preserves were established off the southern coast of California. It summarizes, as well, a series of archeological investigations of wreck scatters in this area that began in the early 1980s with Dan Lenihan's dives on the Winfield Scott and continued after 1985 under the...
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Comet: Submerged Cultural Resources Site Report, Channel Islands National Park (2004)
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In April 1999, Channel Islands National Park Archeologist Don Morris asked the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center (SRC) to lead documentation efforts on the remains of the schooner Comet, exposed on the beach in Simonton Cove, San Miguel Island. Comet had been exposed by winter storms, the first recorded exposure since 1984. SRC archeologists, park staff and volunteers, spent five days documenting Comet’s remains with scale drawings, photos and video. The team found one of the...