- “With the entire archival info and that precise archaeological info coming collectively, we’ve constructed in all probability probably the most right digital model ever of Monitor, and I’m not merely talking merely the shell of it. Every single nut and bolt is there.” Tane Casserley
The USS Monitor was commissioned by way of the Civil Battle for the Union Navy in reply to the Confederate Navy’s new ironclad ship CSS Virginia (beforehand the USS Merrimack), touted as with the ability to breaking the Union blockade at Hampton Roads, Virginia. Swedish-American inventor, John Ericsson acquired right here up with a singular low, freeboard design that included a first-of-its-kind rotating gun turret.
Monitor was launched on January 30, 1862, and on March ninth, famously fought the Virginia on the Battle of Hampton Roads. Whatever the battle being a draw, it efficiently signaled the highest of age-of-sail naval warfare. Monitor was misplaced on December 31 in a storm off Cape Hatteras, taking 16 of her officers and crew alongside along with her.
On this episode, host Kathy A. Smith talks with NOAA’s Tane Casserley about Monitor, plans for the fiftieth anniversary of the Monitor Nationwide Marine Sanctuary, and the best way digital utilized sciences are reimagining one of the simplest ways most of the people interacts with the long-lasting shipwreck.
About Tane Casserley
Tane Casserley joined the Office of Nationwide Marine Sanctuaries inside the spring of 2001. As a result of the Helpful useful resource Security and Enable Coordinator for every Monitor Nationwide Marine Sanctuary and Mallows Bay – Potomac River Nationwide Marine Sanctuary, Tane is liable for the occasion of packages to deal with industrial and leisure makes use of in and throughout the sanctuaries. Tane’s specialties embody Nineteenth-century warships and deep-water archaeology, along with establishing collaborative partnerships, public outreach and exhibit design. He has led NOAA archaeological expeditions inside the Florida Keys, the Good Lakes, California, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Alaska, and USS Monitor. He’s moreover participated in duties along with a sunken Boeing B-29 Superfortress in Lake Mead, a Civil Battle blockade runner in Bermuda, USS Arizona, and was most not too way back part of an expedition to RMS Titanic. Tane’s duties have used technical diving, remotely operated autos (ROVs), autonomous underwater autos (AUVs), and manned submersibles.
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