Exhibits

Odyssey Marine Exploration has discovered hundreds of shipwrecks across the globe. The artifacts, treasure and knowledge recovered from these fascinating time capsules provide a unique opportunity to share the excitement of shipwreck exploration in various exhibit venues.

Many of the artifacts recovered from our shipwreck projects remain in Odyssey's permanent collection and are available for exhibits and further study. Our exhibit displays feature a diversity of shipwreck artifacts, combined with high-definition video or photographs from numerous deep-ocean sites around the world. Some exhibit venues also offer the opportunity to showcase the technology and methods we utilize to discover and excavate shipwreck sites hundreds and even thousands of feet below the ocean's surface.

Odyssey exhibits include:

• Odyssey’s SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure, is an interactive multi-media exhibit featuring hundreds of artifacts recovered from our deep-ocean shipwreck expeditions. Visitors also are immersed in the technology and process Odyssey uses to find and recover shipwreck treasures. The exhibit has been showcased at Discovery Place in Charlotte, NC, Science Museum Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, the Detroit Science Center, the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa and in New Orleans. SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure will open at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore on October 1, 2010.
• SHIPWRECK! Treasures from the SS Republic, developed exclusively for the Baldwin County Heritage Museum in Elberta, Alabama, showcases artifacts from the wreck of the SS Republic, whose extraordinary discovery unveiled the greatest shipwreck treasure of the Civil War era.
• A collection of 45 rare coins from the SS Republic shipwreck, minted in New Orleans from 1844 through 1861, is currently showcased at the New Orleans Mint (known today as the Old U.S. Mint). This unique exhibit features examples of die errors and a rare 17 coin set of 1861-O Liberty Seated Half Dollars struck at the New Orleans Mint which chronicles the Federal government, Louisiana government and Confederate States of America control over the mint that year.
• "Out of the Deep" presented at the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University in England features one of Odyssey's most historically significant finds an extraordinarily rare 17th century wooden folding rule recovered from a shipwreck site located in the Western Approaches to the English Channel. Preserved by sheer luck amongst the perils of the deep, the remaining one arm of the 2-foot ruler is an early form of a pocket calculator incorporating five scales to measure the area and volume of timber. It is the earliest known example ever found on a shipwreck site.
• The American Victory Museum Ship in Tampa showcases some of Odyssey’s most advanced underwater technology. The exhibit includes a full-scale model of a side scan-sonar towfish used in tandem with magnetometry to locate shipwrecks on the ocean floor. Central to the exhibit is as a life-size model of ZEUS, Odyssey's eight-ton Remotely Operated Vehicle configured to conduct robotic archaeology on deep-ocean sites.  Informative graphic display panels combined with high-resolution video further highlight Odyssey’s cutting-edge technology and its historic shipwreck discoveries. Capping the exhibit are two unique artifact displays presenting a host of fascinating finds recovered from the 1865 wreck of the SS Republic.

We welcome additional opportunities to share our fascinating shipwreck collections in science centers, museums, galleries and other venues. For further information, contact us.

Odyssey's SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure appeals to the universal fascination with shipwrecks, pirate lore and sunken treasure. The exhibit features the compelling stories behind some of the world's most famous shipwrecks, their treasure and historical artifacts. Multiple hands-on interactive exhibits and computer games engage visitors with the adventure and excitement of deep-ocean shipwreck exploration, as well as intrigue them with pirate history and legend.

In particular, the exhibit provides guests a close-up encounter with the wreck of the SS Republic, a side-wheel steamship lost in a fierce hurricane off the coast of Georgia in 1865. Discovered 1,700 feet below the surface of the Atlantic, the shipwreck  site presents a stunning time capsule of life in America immediately after the close of the Civil War. The archaeological excavation, the first of its kind ever conducted at such depths, produced more than 51,000 gold and silver coins and nearly 14,000 artifacts"a wealth of mid-19th century trade goods hidden on the ocean floor for over a century.

Through the use of multi-media and innovative technology, Odyssey’s interactive exhibits merge elements of science, technology, history, marine archaeology, weather and navigation. The experience includes piloting a virtual submersible over the Republic shipwreck site, operating a robotic manipulator arm to recover coins, and battling the forces of nature in a 75-mph hurricane tube.

Odyssey’s SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure offers a diversity of hands-on opportunities combined with high-resolution graphics and authentic shipwreck artifact and treasure displays to promise visitors of all of ages a rare and extraordinary journey into the deep ocean! For more information about scheduling Odyssey's SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure please contact:

Adam Tate

813-876-1776 x 6585