Kurt:
Thank you for the update concerning MUA. I am not a underwater type 
person and I am amazed at all of you that participate in this endeavor.
I spent some time (I have lots of that) looking and reading some of 
the material at your Web Site. By golly, I am impressed! The site is 
beautifully done with lots of information. Thank you for sharing your 
organization with world. Keep up the good work for it looks like a 
real up and comer.

Best Regards,
David Parkhill




At 08:12 AM 12/2/2009, you wrote:
>Folks:
>
>When the MUA "opened" its virtual doors in 2004 our mission was to
>encourage underwater archaeologists to share their research with the
>general public and with each other via the Internet.  It was difficult to
>find that first organization that was willing to post with us.  We were
>untested and honestly, pretty inexperienced in public outreach and web
>design and coding but we believed in the mission.  John W. Morris III,
>(the first director of LAMP in St. Augustine, FL) took a chance and
>approached us about using research on the 1764 British sloop Industry for
>our first exhibit.  For that, we will always be grateful. Since then the
>MUA has grown to include nearly 300 pages of content written by over 70
>professional, student, and avocational underwater archaeologists from
>around the world.  We are very fortunate that LAMP's current director,
>Chuck Meide, still believes in our mission and has worked with us to
>update the original exhibit with new images, slide shows, zoomviews, and
>text.  The rather dated look and feel of the original post has been
>replaced with a new design which we hope does an even better job of
>telling Industry's story.
>
>We invite you to view the newly revised British sloop Industry exhibit at
>the MUA here: http://www.themua.org/exhibit_industry
>
>Best regards,
>
>T. Kurt Knoerl
>Director
>The Museum of Underwater Archaeology
>http://www.themua.org