Shipwreck research is not a solitary pursuit.
It looks like it, from the outside. One person in an archive. One diver on a rope in cold water. But the research that produced every account on this site moved faster because of a phone call, an email, a conversation with someone who knew a detail that wasn’t in any document.
We’re not building a community because it’s a good idea for a website. We’re documenting it because it already exists and it’s how this work actually gets done.
You don’t have to dive.
Local historians. Amateur archivists. People who grew up on the South Shore and know which rocks have claimed ships that nobody’s written up yet. Fishermen who’ve snagged a net on something that isn’t on any chart. Photographers who’ve been down to a wreck and come back with images nobody else has.
If you have something — a story, a document, a photograph, a location — there is someone here who wants to hear it.
Something to add?
Every account on this site started with something small that turned out to matter. Send a message — a lead, an archive find, a dive log, or just a question about a wreck you’ve been thinking about.