The real NUMA has discovered many sunken ships, including the CSS ''H. L. Hunley'' .
Cussler and NUMA have helped produce a television series on underwater exploration called '' The Sea Hunters '', which chronicles the discovery and subsequent removal and conservation of the CSS ''H. L. Hunley'' in 1995 . The show also features a number of other shipwrecks in various international locations, and on occasion the failure to find anything at all, such as their attempts to find the '' Holland III '' prototype Submarine . The show features Dr. Cussler and James Delgado , who is also an author and executive director of the Vancouver Maritime Museum . The show gives an in-depth explanation of the story of the shipwreck NUMA is exploring, including information about the ship's history and how it sank. NUMA's expeditions tend to focus on ships of American origin from the early 19th Century to the early 20th Century , especially on Union and Confederate ships of the American Civil War .
The NUMA Advisory Board of Trustees:
NUMA has located or attempted to locate the following vessels and marine artifacts:
- HMS ''Acteon''
- USS ''Akron''
- ''CSS Alabama''
- ''Alexander Nevski'' , a Russian Steam Frigate . Stranded off Thyboron in 1868 while carrying the crown prince.
- CSS ''Arkansas''
- SMS ''Blücher'' , a German Heavy Cruiser . Sunk at the Battle Of Dogger Bank .
- ''Brutus'' , a Schooner of the Republic of Texas Navy.
- ''Bonhomme Richard''
- USS ''Carondelet''
- RMS ''Carpathia''
- CSS ''Chicora''
- CSS ''Charleston''
- USS ''Commodore Jones''
- USS ''Cumberland''
- USS ''Cyclops''
- CSS ''Drewry''
- HMS ''Defence'' , a British Battle Cruiser sunk during the Battle Of Jutland .
- HM Bark ''Endeavour''
- CSS ''Florida''
- CSS ''Fredericksburg''
- CSS ''Gaines''
- CSS ''General Beauregard''
- CSS ''General Lovell''
- '' General Slocum ''
- CSS ''General Thompson''
- CSS ''Governor Moore''
- Great Stone Fleet
- ''Greyhound''
- HMS ''Hawke'' , a first-class British cruiser, sunk by the German U-boat '' U-9 '' in October 1914 .
- USS ''Housatonic''
- CSS ''H. L. Hunley''
- HMS ''Invincible'' , a British battle cruiser sunk at the Battle Of Jutland .
- ''Ivanhoe'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- CSS ''Jamestown''
- USS ''Keokuk''
- '' L'Oiseau Blanc '' ("White Bird"), aircraft flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli , who vanished on an attempted Transatlantic Flight in 1927
- ''Leopoldville'' , a Belgian troop Transport torpedoed outside Cherbourg in 1944 .
- ''Lexington''
- Lost Locomotive Of Kiowa Creek
- CSS ''Louisiana''
- George Mallory and Andrew Irvine , explorers lost on Mount Everest in 1924 .
- CSS ''Manassas''
- '' Mary Celeste ''
- USS ''Milwaukee''
- USS ''Mississippi''
- ''New Orleans''
- ''Norseman'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- ''Northampton'' , a Confederate cargo ship.
- ''Odin'' , a Royal Swedish Steamship that ran aground off Jutland in 1836 with the Swedish prime minister on board.
- USS ''Osage''
- CSS ''Palmetto State''
- USS ''Patapsco''
- HMS ''Pathfinder'' , British scout cruiser.
- USS ''Philippe''
- ''Platte Valley''
- ''Raccoon'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- ''Rattlesnake'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- HMS ''Resolution''
- CSS ''Richmond''
- ''Ruby'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- '' S-35 '', a German Destroyer sunk during the Battle Of Jutland .
- ''Saint Patrick'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- SS ''Savannah'' , first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
- HMS ''Shark'' , British destroyer sunk during the Battle Of Jutland .
- ''Stonewall Jackson'' , a Confederate blockade runner.
- ''Sultana'' , the worst ship disaster in number of lives lost in North America.
- Swamp Angel , famous cannon that fired on Charleston before exploding during the American Civil War .
- Torpedo Raft
- Twin Sisters (cannon) , a pair of four-pounder cannon used against General Antonio López De Santa Anna in the Battle Of San Jacinto .
- ''U-12'' , sunk by HMS Ariel in 1915 .
- ''U-20'' , German U-boat that sank the liner '' Lusitania '' in 1915 . Ran aground on the Jutland coast in 1916 , abandoned by crew and blown up by the Danes.
- ''U-21'' , German U-boat, sank in 1919 .
- '' V-48 '', a German destroyer sunk during the Battle Of Jutland .
- USS ''Varuna''
- CSS ''Virginia'' , a.k.a USS ''Merrimack''.
- CSS ''Virginia II''
- Virginia Navy Fleet sunk by Benedict Arnold
- USS ''Weehawken''
- '' Waratah ''
- SMS ''Wiesbaden'' , German light cruiser sunk off Jutland .
- ''Zavala'' , a steamer in the Republic of Texas Navy.
In the Dirk Pitt series of adventure Novels by Clive Cussler , NUMA is a government organization. The fictional NUMA is devoted to oceanic exploration and investigation, and is the agency employing the main characters in the series of books. Its headquarters is a 30 story building located on the east bank of the Potomac river. It overlooks the Capitol building in Washington, DC .
The fictional NUMA is headed by the character Admiral James Sandecker , with Rudi Gunn as second in command, although Dirk Pitt is eventually asked to take over when Sandecker has political aspirations regarding the vice-presidency.
Housed inside this headquarters is one of world's most advanced computer systems which contains almost every known piece of information, both current and ancient, about the sea. The computer center takes up the entire 10th floor but is in an "open" setting with a raised circular platform at its center. There are no cubicles. Hiram Yeager designed, runs and maintains the computer lab.
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