A team of scientists, filmmakers and divers from the National Geographic Explorers Club will visit Gwynn’s Island this month to spend 100 hours underwater. By doing this, they will recreate a 1954 Chesapeake Bay expedition undertaken by the late Gilbert Klingel, an explorer and Gwynn’s Island resident.
Panel discussion Tuesday
The public will have a chance to meet the team during a panel discussion at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Williams Wharf Landing, 1039 Williams Wharf Road, Mathews. This free event is sponsored by the Mathews Land Conservancy.
A boatbuilder as well as an explorer, Klingle built a diving chamber he called the Aquascope for his 1954 expedition. It was financed by National Geographic, and he wrote a 16-page article about his adventures for the magazine, complete with numerous pages of full-color photos taken by National Geographic photographer Willard R. Culver.
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