Also involved with the discovery of the Hunley submarine in Charleston.
Along with many other shipwrecks, including the RMS Carpathia.
On 9 September 1999, the
Reuters and
AP wire services reported that Argosy International Ltd., headed by
Graham Jessop, son of the undersea explorer
Keith Jessop, and sponsored by the
National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), had discovered
Carpathia's wreck in 600 ft (180 m) of water, 185 mi (298 km) west of
Land's End.
[33] Bad weather forced his ship to abandon the position before Jessop could verify the discovery using underwater cameras. However, when he returned to the location, the wreck was determined to be the
Hamburg-America Line's
Isis, sunk on 8 November 1936.
[34]
In 2000, the American author and diver
Clive Cussler announced that his organisation, NUMA, had found the true wreck of
Carpathia in the Spring of that year,
[35][36] at a depth of 500 ft (150 m).
[37] After the submarine attack,
Carpathia landed upright on the seabed. NUMA gave the approximate location of the wreck as 120 mi (190 km) west of
Fastnet, Ireland.
[38]
Yes, after writing about "NUMA", he actually founded and funded the real organization.
