My name’s Jim Delgado, and I’m a maritime,
or un derwater, archaeologist.
Maritime archaeology is the study, from what
people leave behind, of how we as human beings
have interacted with the oceans and with lakes
and rivers.
It goes back thousands of years, tens of thousands
of years, as people harvested goods from the
sea, learned how to fish, built the first
canoes to cross the oceans, to today’s modern
times when big massive ships ply the oceans
carrying oil, large numbers of people, and
in the 21st century, still transport 90% of
the things that people buy and use by water.
