Event Details
Wednesday, Apr 16, 2014
Confederate Commerce Raiders in the Civil War
Time: 3:00 pm til 4:00 pm
Location: Florida Maritime Museum at 4415 119th Street West, Cortez, FL 34215
Description: The Confederate Commerce Raiders were developed by the Confederacy in reaction to blockading of Southern Ports by the United States Navy. During this 30 minute lecture we will follow the development of the commerce raiders, the careers of the vessels, and the impact they had on the shipping and whaling fleets at the time.
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Time Sifters Lecture - Ancient Relics by Curt Bowen
Time: 6:00 pm til 7:00 pm
Location: Selby Library, downtown Sarasota
Description: Specializing in extreme underwater photography, Curt Bowen has traveled the northern and southern hemispheres on dozens of expeditions capturing images of places and relics never before seen by human eyes. Curt is CEO and founder of Advanced Diver Magazine, CEO of Rebreatherworld.com, coordinator for the ADM Exploration Team, and president of the 501c3 ADM Exploration Foundation.He is trained in the highest levels of deep mixed gas technical cave diving and has coordinated dozens of underwater expeditions from the Great Lakes deep shipwrecks to hundreds of unexplored caves in Mexico’s Yucatan. He has photographed the marble caves of southern Brazil and explored deep into the massive blue holes of the Bahamas. A 26 year Fire medic (now retired) of the Sarasota County Fire Rescue Department, it is Curt’s photographs of Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Spring that grace this year’s Florida Archaeology Month posters. Posters will be available at the meeting
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