Salty Podcast: Sailing Stories

Salty Podcast #100 ⛵ Stories Sunken Ships Tell with Dr. James Delgado

Salty Podcast: Sailing Stories

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Send us Fan Mail For the 100th episode of the Salty Podcast, Dr. James Delgado joins Cap’n Tinsley to explore what shipwrecks reveal about the people who built, sailed and sometimes died aboard them. James is a maritime archaeologist, historian, author and explorer whose five-decade career has included more than 100 shipwreck projects around the world. His investigations have included Titanic, USS Arizona, Alabama’s Clotilda, buried Gold Rush ships beneath downtown San Francisco and deep-sea ...

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