4 • October 10 - 23, 2014 • The Log San Francisco divers help identify ship wrecks


SAN FRANCISCO — A team of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers have con- firmed the discovery of the 1910 shipwreck SS Selja and an unidentified early steam tugboat wreck tagged the “mystery wreck.” The discov- ery was made on Sept. 16 just outside San Francisco’s Golden Gate strait. The researchers also locat- ed the 1863 wreck of the clip- per ship Noonday, currently obscured by mud and silt on the ocean floor.


These and other shipwreck investigations mark the first mission of a two-year project


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Obama expands Pacific Ocean Marine Reserve to 6 times current size


NEW YORK (AP) — Far off America’s shores, an ocean reserve flush with rare seabirds, turtles and marine mammals will grow to roughly three times the size of California under a memo- randum that President Barack Obama signed Sept. 25. The expanded Pacific Remote


Islands Marine National Monument will cover 490,000 square miles, making it the largest marine reserve in the world that is completely off limits to commercial resource extrac- tion, the White House said. “This really is a matter of


to locate, identify and better understand some of the esti- mated 300 wrecks in Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, and the adjacent Golden Gate National Recreation Area. “The waters of the sanctu-


ary and the park are one of the great undersea museums in the nation,” said James Delgado, director of Maritime Heritage for the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. “These wrecks tell the power- ful story of the people who helped build California and opened America to the Pacific for nearly two centuries. Finding the remains of these


stewardship. It’s also a matter of generational responsibility,” Secretary of State John Kerry said Sept. 25. “We have a responsibili- ty to make sure our kids and their families and the future has the same ocean to serve it in the same way as we have — not to be abused, but to preserve and utilize.” Millions of marine animals live in the bio-rich expanse included by the new monument, which will also add new protections for more than 130 “seamounts” — underwater mountains where rare or undiscovered species are frequently found. Commercial fishing, deep-sea mining and other extraction of underwater resources will be banned, but recreational fishing will still be allowed, in an attempt to pre- serve the public’s access to feder- al areas. The move to broaden the


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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researchers located two shipwrecks – SS Seljaand Noonday– during a recent dive in San Francisco. The team was the first to complete a sonar-survey of the Frank H. Buck.


ships links the past to the present.” NOAA’s Office of National


Marine Sanctuaries and the U.S. National Park Service, which began researching the wrecks in the 1980s, published the first detailed inventory and history of the submerged


George W. Bush-era reserve comes as Obama seeks to show concrete presidential action to protect the environment, despite firm opposition in Congress to new environmental legislation. At the United Nations, Obama announced new U.S. commit- ments to help other nations deal with the effects of climate change, as world leaders seek to galvanize support for a major global climate treaty to be final- ized next year in Paris. Yet the expansion falls far


short of what Obama could have done in the Pacific had he used the full extent of his powers. Maritime law gives the U.S.


control up to 200 nautical miles from the coast. Under Bush, the U.S. set aside waters extending about 50 miles from the shore of the remote, U.S.-administered islands in the south-central Pacific, thousands of miles from


heritage of the region in 1990. Since then, Robert Schwemmer, project co-leader and NOAA maritime archaeol- ogist, has conducted new research in archives around the world, and interviewed fishermen and pioneering


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the American mainland. The islands sit between


Hawaii and American Samoa and are divided into five regions. Obama is extending the preserve to the full 200 miles — but only for three of the five regions. Had Obama expanded the


reserve in all five regions, he could have protected more than 780,000 square miles according to a geographic analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Still, environmental groups


cheered the announcement and said they hoped it would spur other nations to take similar steps to preserve the world’s oceans. “The president acted expedi-


tiously, while the area is still largely pristine and undisturbed,” said Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council.


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