Membership:

Membership is open to both professionals and non-professionals interested in the principles of the Society.

  

For additional information and schedule of membership fees, please contact: Dr. E. Lee Spence, President, Sea Research Society, 206B East Fifth North Street, Summerville, SC 29483 (843) 821-0001.

Founding Members:

• the late Frederick Dumas, French underwater archeologist famed for his work with Captain Jaques Yves Cousteau
• the late Luis Marden, then Chief Foreign Editorial Staff, National Geographic Magazine, and National Geographic Society's resident shipwreck expert
• the late Ron A. Gibbs, then Registrar, Division of Museums, National Parks Service, and had previously worked on the federal government's Dry Tortugas Shipwreck Project and other shipwreck projects
• Edwin C. Bearss, then senior historian for the National Park Service, author of numerous books including several on shipwrecks
• the late Mendel L. Peterson, then director, Underwater Exploration Project, Smithsonian Institution
• Dr. E. Lee Spence, underwater archeologist and author of over 30 books on shipwrecks and sunken treasure
• Dr. Roland C. Young, CEO of the South Carolina Underwater Research Council (SCUWARC)
• Donald E. Spencer, then Archivist, Military Archives Division, United States National, Archives
• Sir Robert F. Marx, undersea explorer and author, then marine archeology editor Argosy magazine
• Don Julio F. Guilen, Contralmirante, Ministerio de Marina, El Director del Museo Naval, Madrid Spain
• George R. Fischer, retired Underwater Archeologist, National Park Service, then editor, New World Underwater Archeology
• Robert C. Wheeler, then Associate Director of the Minnesota Historical Society
• Don Pablo Bush Romero, then president of the Club de Exploraciones Mexico, Mexican underwater archeological society
• Norman Scott, then president of expeditions Unlimited Aquatic Enterprises Inc., Director, Chichen Itza project
• the late Sir Anders Franzen, best known as the discoverer of the wreck of the Swedish warship Vasa
• Paul J. Tzimoulis (editor/publisher of Skin Diver magazine)
• Michael Reese II, Special Assignments Editor for National Diver, Contributing Editor, Oceans, Skin Diver, etc.
• Bud Smith, then publisher of Dive "The Prestige Magazine for Sport Diving"
• Kenn M. Feigelman, then Editor, Canadian Diving News, Director "Deep/Quest 2"
• James Dawson, then Director, Alexander Howden & Swann Ltd. and at Lloyd's and in association with Ocean Industry Insurers, London, England
• the late Peter Throckmorton who was best known for his 1960 discovery of what was then the oldest known shipwreck in the world (it was from the Bronze Age). An account of that discovery was carried in National Geographic Magazine. Throckmorton published numerous articles and books on shipwrecks and underwater archeology, and was a professor at Nova University in Florida when he died.