Diving in the National Park System: An Administrative History

Farabee CR, Lenihan DJ, Submerged Resources Center, National Park Service. 2019. Diving in the National Park System: An Administrative History. National Park Service. Lakewood, Colorado

A history of the National Park Service's dive program from its early beginnings with a primary focus on search and rescue to its current expanded mission. Today's dive program continues its original search and rescue operations in and outside of national parks but also works to further natural and cultural resource research, management, interpretation, and preservation. The publication looks at the early beginnings of the dive program, its development as a search and rescue tool, its early adoption of SCUBA technology, its location and documentation of submerged cultural resources, and its scientific studies of underwater organisms and ecosystems. Using in depth research and first-person interviews, the publication looks at how the dive program has changed over the course of more than 100 years as it expanded its mission to meet the needs of an ever-growing national park system.

Type
Published Report
Authors
Farabee, Charles; Lenihan, Daniel; Submerged Resources Center, National Park Service
Date of Issue
2019
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
ACAD , ALEU , AMIS , AMME , APIS , ARPO , ASIS , BIBE , BICA , BICY , BISC , BITH , BUFF , CABR , CACO , CAHA , CAKR , CALO , CANA , CANY , CASA , CAVE , CHIC , CHIS , CHRI , COLO , CRLA , CUIS , CURE , DEVA , DEWA , DRTO , EVER , FIIS , FOCA , FOFR , FOMA , GATE , GLAC , GLBA , GLCA , GOGA , GRCA , GRPO , GRSM , GRTE , GUIS , HALE , HAVO , ISRO , JAME , JELA , KAHO , KALA , LAKE , LAMR , LAVO , MACA , MOCA , MOCR , MORA , NPSA , OCMU , OLYM , OZAR , PAIS , PERL , PIRO , PORE , PUHO , REDW , ROMO , SARI , SEKI , SLBE , STLI , TIMU , TUZI , UPDE , VICK , VIIS , WAPA , WRST , YELL , YOSE
Keywords
archaeology, archeology, dive team, diver, diving policy, drowning, looting, marine biology, navy, NPS dive program, rescue, reservoir, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SCRU, scuba, search, shipwreck, SIO, SRC, submarine, Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, submerged resource, Submerged Resources Center, underwater, underwater archaeology, underwater archeology
Subjects
NPS.gov Subject Site: Archeology , NPS.gov Subject Site: Maritime Heritage , NPS.gov Subject Site: Underwater

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