The College of Marine Arts was operated as the Sea Research Society's formal higher education wing from 1972 until 1978. It was initially located in Columbia, South Carolina and later moved to Mount Pleasant, outside of Charleston where it was housed in the former Berkeley County courthouse building on Pitt Street. Students participated in classroom workshops on history and artifact identification & conservation as well as in underwater archaeological projects on the wrecks of the

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blockade runners '' Georgiana'', '' Mary Bowers'' and ''

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'' as well as

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projects in the Cooper River and

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s in the Ashley River.

Degrees

The College of Marine Arts awarded five

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s in Marine Histories (DMH or MHD). They were issued for a combination of research and ''jure dignitatis''. Recipients included Pablo Bush Romero o
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E. Lee Spence,

Peter Throckmorton Edgerton Alvord Throckmorton (July 30, 1928 – June 5, 1990), known as Peter Throckmorton, was an American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist. Throckmorton was a founding member of the Sea Research Society and served on its Bo ...

, Robert F. Marx, and

Anders Franzén Carl Gustaf Anders Franzén (23 July 1918 – 8 December 1993) was a Swedish marine technician and an amateur naval archaeologist. He is most famous for having located the 1628 wreck of the Swedish galleon '' Vasa'' in 1956 and participated in h ...

, each published historians, known for their important shipwreck discoveries and their pioneering work in underwater archaeology.

References

Underwater archaeology Private universities and colleges in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-stub