The Ocean Discovery website is now updated with a new article about the GUE / Overseas media LLC project to the USS Atlanta.  This expedition marks a mile stone in the development of diving. Extreme exposure times at extreme depths produced hours of stunning video.  Ocean Discovery´s Richard Lundgren was one of the lead divers on the expedition. 

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Alexander Rauscher, Svenska Dagbladet have done some fantastic illustrations of the wreck site.  They are based on over ten hours of ROV video shot during the field study in November 2011.  They give the viewer a clear overview of the wreck site.  It also illustrates how intact the Mars is.  The port side is almost completely intact with rows of gun ports.  More illustrations in high res here

ILLUSTRATION ALXANDER RAUSCHER/SVENSKA DAGBLADET © 

Richard Lundgren just came back from a five day trip to Hollywood together with Deep Sea Production's Malcolm Dixelius. Scandinature Films's Bo Landin will produce a 40min giant screen 3 D production. Underwater filming is planned for the summer of 2012.  DJ Roller will film the underwater 3D shots. Advanced computer generated images (CGI) and historical reenactments will put the viewer right in the middle of an epic battle. Replicas of huge guns will be tested to see if it was possible to sink ships from afar.  Read More

Maritime Archaeologist Patrick Höglund and dive leader Richard Lundgren from Ocean Discovery is holding a seminar on Karlskrona Marine Museum 16th of  Februari. 
Host for the evening is the museum director Richard Bauer, a former dive leader of the Swedish Navy.

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Richard Lundgren held a presentation on the Hylkysukellus 2012 Wreck Diving seminar in Helsinki Finland.  The topic was to no suprise the discovery of the ship wreck Mars and an update on the recent research. 

This is one of many sources that gives us a hint about the Guns, lost on Mars (The headline reads “Bleff Bårtta på Mars”, and means lost on Mars). The bronze guns was according to this source two Canons, two ¾ Canons, two Culverins (Notslanga), seven ½ Canons, ten field Culverins, four ¾ Culverins, 20 ½ Culverins, six falcuns and 48 falcunettes. Together with the four iron stone-guns, the artillery in this source summarizes to 105 guns in ten different sizes. The amount differs in other sources. I am looking forward to scrutinize the sources and compare them with the findings below the surface. Diving in the archives and further research will tell.

/Ingvar Sjöblom, Swedish National Defence College.

Today Ocean Discovery's Richard Lundgren was elected fellow member of the prestigious Explorers Club. This is a  tremendous  appreciation of a life time of underwater exploration culminating with the discovery of the ship wreck Mars.

Founded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting research and education in the physical, natural and biological sciences. The Club's members have been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts: First to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon—all accomplished by our members.

Fellowship is reserved for those who have distinguished themselves by directly contributing to scientific knowledge in the field of geographical exploration or allied sciences. 
 

Important discoveries by  Explorer Club members;

North Pole - 1909 - Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, and Ootah. 

South Pole - 1911 - Roald Amundsen

Summit of Mount Everest, World's Highest Peak - 1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay 

Marianas Trench, Greatest Ocean Depth - 1960 - Jacques Piccard and Don Whttp://www.explorers.org/alsh 

Surface of the Moon - 1969 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins 
 

Ocean Discovery´s Richard Lundgren will hold a seminar at KTH- Tech Diving 2012.  The subject is searching for and diving the Mars. 

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On December 01 Richard Lundgren held a presentation at the royal palace in Stockholm. The King and the Crown Princess was present  along with more then 80 members of the court.  The King and Princess are very interested in the wreck. The King who is also a diver asked some very qualified questions. 

Photo Henrik Garlöv / Royal Court