Dr. Roger C. Smith served as State Underwater Archaeologist for the Florida Division of Historical Resources for almost three decades. He worked on shipwrecks throughout the Caribbean before graduating from Texas A&M University with a Ph.D. in nautical archaeology. Roger returned to Florida to take up the post of Chief Underwater Archaeologist in 1987 and has since done extensive field work on shipwrecks off the coast of Florida. Dr. Smith has taught at Florida State University and the University of West Florida, and is an advisor to the Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society in Washington D.C. He is also the author of several books and dozens of professional and popular articles.