SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - This year, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum marks 25 years of preserving the maritime heritage of the Santa Barbara Channel. Since 2000, the museum has been a cultural anchor.

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At the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM), every visitor, exhibit, and harbor memory is part of a larger story, and volunteers help bring those stories ...

Originally built in 1937 in Tacoma, Washington, the Western Flyer was a state-of-the-art sardine seiner that became a symbol of American literature and environmental awareness after Steinbeck and ...

Steve Nagiewicz, a marine archaeologist, diver and adjunct professor of Marine Science at Stockton University, speaks about shipwreck artifacts from the Revolutionary War Battle of Chestnut Neck on ...