The island is noted as the location of numerous historic shipwrecks.

Add dozens of historic shipwrecks, and this is diving heaven.

In November 1994, it was designated as Maryland's first historic shipwreck preserve.

He added that his overarching goal was to call attention to the lack of legal protections for historic shipwrecks.

Nevertheless, 15 historic shipwrecks have been identified with place of loss listed as "Sturgeon Point".

Over the 1960s and 1970s it also began to work in the then emerging areas of historic shipwrecks and Aboriginal site management.

Over the past two decades Innes has focused on researching and locating lost historic shipwrecks.

It does both archival research and underwater expeditions in search of historic shipwrecks.

The field programs offer students the opportunity to actually work on historic shipwrecks and other archaeological sites.

"It is the type of thing we leave our historic shipwrecks open to."