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	HOME ABOUT US SUBMERSIBLE EQUIPMENT DIVES CONTACT US   Doug's Bio Our Clients Photo Gallery	Delta Oceanographics is owned and operated by Douglas N. Privitt and Chris B. Ijames. Doug founded the company in the early 1980s with Richard A. Slater, PhD. In the past twenty-five years, the Delta submersible has taken scientists, researchers and photographers diving off five continents and over thirty countries. Delta was designed and built by Doug, who has been building submersibles since the 1950s. Since its first launch in 1982, Delta has performed over 6,700 dives with a perfect safety record. Doug Privitt Chris Ijames Chris Ijames has been with Delta Oceanographics for over 18 years. In addition to coordinating and managing operations, Chris has logged over 2,000 dives as pilot of the Delta submersible. Joe Lilly is a Delta pilot and has been with Delta Oceanographics for 10 years. Joe is also a navigator and maintenance technician for the Delta submersible. Joe Lilly Delta has been utilized on a wide variety of projects, including geographical fault mapping, ecological surveys, fisheries assessments, oil pipe and platform inspections, searching for historical shipwrecks, underwater photography and cinematography. Delta searched for cold water corals in the Aleutian Islands, explored nuclear bomb craters at Eniwetok Atoll, studied lobster populations in Papua, New Guinea and surveyed the Exxon Valdez oil spill at Prince William Sound. Shipwrecks explored by Delta include the Lusitania, the Admiral Sampson, the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Carl D. Bradley, the Montebello, and the Brother Jonathan - where over $5 million in gold coins was recovered. Delta Submersible Delta is an invaluable tool for underwater photo and film projects. It was the first submersible to dive to the bottom of the Dead Sea for the filming of NBC Television's "Biblical Mysteries: Sodom and Gomorrah." Delta was featured prominently in National Geographic's film, "The Last Voyage of the Lusitania" and in its accompanying book. Robert Ballard dived in Delta to investigate the shipwreck first hand. Today, Delta Oceanographics continues to provide the most reliable and efficient submersible service worldwide - the reason why Popular Science Magazine called Delta, "the Jeep of deep submersibles." Read more about Doug Privitt... To Top of Page
	Delta Oceanographics PMB 146, 9452 Telephone Rd. Ventura, California 93004-2600 Phone: (805) 658-8439 Email: Ijames@jetlink.net