Author Bradley G. Stevens presents The Ship, The Saint, and the Sailor—The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak
Update: 2018-10-04
Description
The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor reveals Alaska's oldest shipwreck discovered and its continuing story today.
In 1861, the Russian barque Kad’yak set sail from Kodiak, Alaska, with a shipload of ice, but within a few miles from shore struck a rock and foundered. However, because it was full of ice, it drifted for four days before finally sinking near the grave of Alaska’s revered Father (now Saint) Herman on Spruce Island.
Over 140 years later, Bradley G. Stevens found the ship with a team of volunteer divers, after years of painstaking research. This is the incredible story of the ship (Kad’yak), the Saint (Herman), and the Sailor (Captain Arkhimandritov) and their intertwined history within the larger context of Alaskan history. It is the story of how the ship was found, almost lost again to private salvors, and became the site of the first underwater archaeological survey in Alaska.
Dr. Bradley G. Stevens is a scientist, researcher, and professor. He received his Master's in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina and his PhD in Fisheries Science from the University of Washington. Stevens worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service for twenty-two years in Kodiak, Alaska, before he moved to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a tenured professor of Environmental Science. He lives in Salisbury, Maryland.
In 1861, the Russian barque Kad’yak set sail from Kodiak, Alaska, with a shipload of ice, but within a few miles from shore struck a rock and foundered. However, because it was full of ice, it drifted for four days before finally sinking near the grave of Alaska’s revered Father (now Saint) Herman on Spruce Island.
Over 140 years later, Bradley G. Stevens found the ship with a team of volunteer divers, after years of painstaking research. This is the incredible story of the ship (Kad’yak), the Saint (Herman), and the Sailor (Captain Arkhimandritov) and their intertwined history within the larger context of Alaskan history. It is the story of how the ship was found, almost lost again to private salvors, and became the site of the first underwater archaeological survey in Alaska.
Dr. Bradley G. Stevens is a scientist, researcher, and professor. He received his Master's in Marine Biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina and his PhD in Fisheries Science from the University of Washington. Stevens worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service for twenty-two years in Kodiak, Alaska, before he moved to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as a tenured professor of Environmental Science. He lives in Salisbury, Maryland.
Comments
In Channel
Download from Google Play
Download from App Store
United States00:00
00:00
x
