Underwater Search, Survey and Remote Sensing Specialists


Magnetometer
Side scan sonar
Sub-bottom profiler
Remote operated vehicles
Ground penetrating radar

Jim Whitaker on the deck of the Virgalona, magging the E-110 Site.

Jim Whitaker, (blue shirt, back to camera) on a deep water, remote sensing job.

Some of Jim Whitaker's Recent Undertakings have included:

• Participated with the Historical Society, at the US Navy's request, in locating a
  highly sensitive historical deep water target. Worked as a navigator on the 74 foot
  "Ursula Major" for a 1200 mile ocean voyage from Miami to Connecticut and return.

• Actively participated in both shallow and deep water search and recovery projects including:
  1) NASA shuttle recovery
  2) South African Airline Flight 295 recovery
  3) Search for the gold steamship Central America , off the Carolina coast

• Executed a magnetometer survey for an archaeological expedition on the Bahamas
  Banks for Seaview, Los Angeles, California.

• Planned, set up and operated search equipment for a treasure ship at FSW 1500 in
  Dry Tortugas for a Tampa, Florida group

• Helicopter location in Sea of Japan at FSW 3500

• Sonar search for a copper laden shipwreck off Long Island, NY. at FSW 750

• Classified Navy search off Kauai, Hawaii.

• Participated in search and location of WW II treasure ship off the coast of Oman,
  FSW 600

• Searched, located and recovered the wreckage and bodies from a Cessna 421
  airplane off the Florida coast.

• Classified Navy search off the coasts of South Carolina, Florida and the Bahamas in
  FSW 4000

• Magnetometer survey of Spanish wreck off the coast of Ecuador

• Consultant for a group doing a magnetometer survey off of Cuba

• Planned and operated magnetometer search and survey for a treasure ship off the
  Philippines coast, FSW 200.

• Relocated and continued sonar search for Atlantis evidence or more Bimini stones.

• Magnetometer survey of a near shore site of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet off the
  Florida east coast.

• Consultant for search and excavation of 400 year old timber on bottom of Lake
  Superior.

• Continued proofing, locating magnetometer targets of shipwrecks off Buefort,
  North Carolina. One target is identified as the "Queen Anne's Revenge", the lost
  flagship of the pirate Blackbeard.

  <FSW = feet standing water>

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