Description: Nick Teasdale surveys the wreck site of the Torrent. He passes over a gudgeon* , some copper pins and locates a deadeye** adjacent to a piece of Torrent’s planking.
*Gudgeon - a piece of metal to which a rudder could be affixed
** Deadeye - a guideline for rope
Description: Educator Ken Koga-Moriuchi examines some of the artifacts recovered from the Torrent shipwreck with Dave McMahan - Alaska State Archaeologist and Team Torrent members Steve Lloyd, Ursa Lively and Andrey Nikolaev.
Note: The Torrent shipwreck site is a designated historic site.
Click the banner above to be directed to the United States Coast Guard Cutter Hickory and their video of the Torrent Recovery!
Steve Lloyd, Loic Thomas, Ken Koga-Moriuchi and Captain Dan Eames are featured on a sports program called Alaska Outdoors Television. Their sport fishing episode will debut on Anchorage Fox Television on Nov. 15th 2008. Please click on Alaska Outdoors Television to see snippets of previously viewed episodes!
Team Torrent joined Explorers Kevin McGregor and Marc Millican to lift a submerged Taylorcraft from a lake this summer. For the full story click on the picture below:
16 year-old coffee! Stanley / Aladdin makes some tough products!
