Past Expeditions
Past
May 16 - 27, 2025
Oct 13 - 25, 2025
Past
In May of 2022, the Endeavour and a team of eight found the wreck. We’re going back this year to continue the research, looking for the anchors, the bell, and the aft part of the ship which may be in deeper water, and building a detailed map of the wreckage. The expedition lead is marine archeologist Jenya Anichenko, Ph.D.
The Star of Bengal was a 264-foot schooner that sank off Coronation Island, Alaska, on September 20, 1908. The ship was heading back to San Francisco, full of canned salmon and laborers from the cannery at Wrangell. The weather picked up and the ship broke on the rocks and sank. Of the 138 men on board 110 died.​
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We have a grant from the State of Alaska but we need donor participants on this 12-day expedition to cover costs.
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May 26, 2025. The expedition was a fantastic success and our sponsor/participants were an integral part of the team. Read about the expedition here.
This is our annual fall humpback whale survey in Southeast run by the Alaska Whale Foundation and led by executive director Andy Szabo, Ph.D.
The researchers identify individual whales by the unique patterns on their flukes and measure their body mass (a proxy for health) by flying a drone over the whale with a flat plane camera and precise altimeter. Most of the work is done from small boats which can put us very, very close to the whales. We also listen to the whales through a hydrophone piped into the ship's sound system.
The team will be working in Frederick Sound, Stephens Passage, and Seymour Canal. For a summary of the 2023 survey click here. For a short video of that expedition, click here.
November 2, 2025. Our sponsor/participants helped complete the survey and are excited to report our humpback population is healthy and growing!