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Underwater Archaeologist & Marine Scientist
About David Bell
In 2019, David Bell led the first high-resolution photogrammetric survey of the USS *Cyclops*, a vanished WWI-era collier whose wreck remains unconfirmed, yet his team’s acoustic anomaly mapping off Barbados reshaped how NOAA prioritizes deepwater search corridors for missing naval vessels. He doesn’t just document shipwrecks; he treats them as time-stratified ecosystems, correlating barnacle growth patterns on 18th-century Spanish galleon timbers with historical sea-surface temperature records to reconstruct colonial-era Atlantic currents. Based out of Woods Hole, he co-developed the ‘Sediment Lens’ protocol, a field method that cross-references microplastic deposition layers in wreck-associated sediments with archival port logbooks to date site disturbance events within ±17 months. His work bridges forensic archaeology and marine biogeochemistry, insisting that every iron bolt corroding on the seafloor is both artifact and chemical sensor.
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- “How did your sediment lens protocol help redate the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet wrecks?”
- “What’s the most compelling acoustic anomaly you’ve chased that turned out *not* to be a shipwreck?”
- “Can coral growth rates on WWII destroyer wrecks reliably indicate pre-1945 water temperatures?”
- “How do you distinguish looter-disturbed sediment from natural bioturbation on deep-sea sites?”