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NUMA
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NUMA is the US government's oceanographic agency - a sort of undersea counterpart of NASA, the space agency. NUMA's oceanography research includes marine archaeology, the study of sea life, deep-sea geology and mining, and observations of the effects the oceans have on the climate of the earth - as well as carrying out secret work for the government from time to time.
After retiring from the navy, Admiral James Sandecker was asked to create a government-funded agency dedicated to the research on, around and under the sea. When Sandecker was thinking about the team he'd need to put together, the first person on his list was Dirk Pitt. And when Pitt joined, Al Giordino was swift to follow. In its early days NUMA existed in a rented warehouse with fewer than a dozen staff. Sandecker rapidly built it into a huge organization. |
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NUMA Headquarters Building
The NUMA building is a thirty-story tubular structure covered in green reflective glass situated above the Potomac River in eastern Washington. Sandecker's office is on the top floor while the lobby is an atrium that boasts waterfalls and aquariums filled with exotic sea life.
Other NUMA Facilities
NUMA owns a hangar at Dulles
NUMA Hurricane Center in Florida
NUMA Research Center on the bay near Corpus Christi, Texas
NUMA marine science center at Bremerton
NUMA research station on Lake Superior in Duluth |
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A selection of NUMA Research Expeditions:
Diving for artefacts from the Bounty near Pitcairn Island.
An archaeological survey of the Nile to locate Pharaoh Menkura's funeral barge.
Expedition to determine why seals and dolphins are disappearing in the waters around the Antarctic peninsula.
Assess the shrinking sea ice around the Antarctica.
A deep-water survey in the Tonga Trench in the South Pacific.
Study the coral reefs near the Dominican Republic to determine what is damaging the Caribbean's sea life.
Look for the remains of Odysseus's fleet near Guadeloupe.
Locate and salvage the Titanic.
Discover the Library of Alexandria. |
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