Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 172, 182, 211, 247, 250, 267–68, 270

  Woolley, Doug

  and advances in mining technology, 170–71

  author’s introduction to, 22–24

  and Ballard’s discovery of Titanic, 253–59

  and Beazley’s Titanic search, 125–26

  and Britannic discovery, 166–67

  celebrity of, 129

  childhood, 25–27

  eccentric character of, 115–16

  and films on Titanic, 110

  and Goldsmith’s Titanic search, 175

  and Grattan’s Titanic search, 179–80, 191

  and Grimm’s Titanic search, 195–98, 204

  and Mearns’s Titanic search, 229, 231–32

  Palmer compared to, 275–76

  publicity and funding for Titanic salvage, 135, 138–43, 148–51, 153, 161–66, 194, 241–46, 256

  and the Queen Elizabeth wreck, 157–61, 243–44

  and salvage rights for Titanic, 115–18, 120–22, 254–55

  search and salvage plan of, 129–32, 131, 139, 174, 183, 257–59, 264

  World Campus Afloat, 158

  World War I

  and aviation advances, 114

  and categorization of shipwrecks, 30

  distribution of wrecks from, 30

  and growth of salvage industry, 103–6

  and Harland & Wolff ships, 261

  and the Queen Elizabeth, 156

  and rate of shipwrecks, 111

  USS San Diego sinking, 56

  torpedo-sunk ships, 85–86

  World War II

  and aviation advances, 97

  and categorization of shipwrecks, 30

  SS City of Cairo sinking, 200

  distribution of wrecks from, 30

  and Harland & Wolff ships, 261

  Java Sea wrecks, 31–32

  SS President Coolidge sinking, 134

  TSMS Lakonia sinking, 28

  and underwater acoustics research, 43

  and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 172

  Y

  USS Yorktown, 253

  YouTube, 256

  Z

  Zong, 37

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  About the Author

  Daniel Stone is a former staff writer for National Geographic and White House correspondent for Newsweek. He holds degrees from UC Davis and Johns Hopkins University, where he now teaches environmental science and history. He lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and two sons, one of whom is a dog.

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